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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


Merry Christmas Cowboy

Merry Christmas Cowboy, November 2022
Four Corners Ranch #2
by Maisey Yates

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384 pages
ISBN: 1335600957
EAN: 9781335600950
Kindle: B09P1PTCWS
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"No cutting corners in developing a relationship."

Fresh Fiction Review

Merry Christmas Cowboy
Maisey Yates

Reviewed by Sandra Wurman
Posted October 26, 2022

Romance Holiday

Just met two of my newest favorite characters. Violet and Wolf are the stars of MERRY CHRISTMAS COWBOY. Maisey Yates really flexed her writer’s muscles when she created these two very complicated characters. It’s no wonder that their relationship has many ups and downs. Their lives had been a series of disappointments compliments of their mothers. That’s the one thing these two have in common. Being left behind when mothers walked away from their husbands and their children.

Violet was luckier than Wolf. She had the undying love and support of her father Cain. Sure, Cain had issues to resolve after losing his wife, but he picked himself up and managed to lavish his young daughter with care and love. But even that couldn’t prevent many insecurities and Violet lived a careful life. Busy with her two jobs. Enjoying time with her family. But not quite up to taking a chance with her heart.

Wolf had devoted his life to working his family’s ranch. He loved his family. But Wolf kept a very busy social life. One-nighters and no commitment was his version of adapting to his family upbringing with an absent mother, older brother, and uncaring father. Wolf was void of emotional strength since his life seemed void of the love of people who stayed.

Violet and Wolf were leery of trusting their hearts to anyone out of their immediate circle. And yet somehow these two were extraordinarily attracted to each other.

Certain that this attraction would burn out quickly neither one was prepared for or in favor of anything more than just a short fling. That was usual for Wolf. In fact, Wolf was only going to be in Violet’s town for just a couple of weeks. Violet was just looking for a chance to get a taste of coloring out of the lines. A two-week stretch of throwing caution to the wind was just fine with her.

MERRY CHRISTMAS COWBOY is about how families come in all varieties. Some more traditional, others growing a new sort of family. What is ultimately important isn’t the sort of family, but the dynamics of the family. Built on a base of love, respect, and honesty. Violet and Wolf are the most honest folk you will meet. No subterfuge. No guile. Tackling their attraction in the only way they know. And Maisey Yates brings us along for an unusual courtship. Her characters are spot-on and honest. Loveable and challenging. So real and vibrant. MERRY CHRISTMAS COWBOY takes place around the holiday season but this tale centers on much more than that. Along the way, Violet gets some sage advice about love from her stepmom who cautions her about keeping a scorecard on the ups and downs of any relationship. Sounds pretty smart to me. Vintage sage wisdom from Maisie Yates.

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SUMMARY

As the snow falls on Four Corners Ranch, all this untamed cowboy wants for Christmas is the family he’s never had…

Cowboy Wolf Garrett is delighted his brother is happily married—really, he is. But time can never heal Wolf’s own wounds, so being surrounded by such marital joy is a bit…much. A trip to his extended family’s ranch in Copper Ridge seems the ideal change of scenery. Until he meets local innkeeper Violet Donnelly and realizes he’s exchanged one form of torture for another—trying, and spectacularly failing, to resist their instant, wildly hot chemistry.

Violet knew Wolf was trouble the moment he walked into her inn. But it's a whole new level of trouble when she discovers that their secret nights have left her pregnant! Especially when she has six feet of gorgeous, furious cowboy demanding that she come home with him for the holidays and marry him. Wolf has lost more than she could ever imagine, but Violet believes in the power of love to heal, and she’ll do anything to give their future family a chance. Wolf has already given her so many firsts—dare she hope he’s about to become her first Christmas miracle too?

Bonus novella included!


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