Clay!!! Clay is everything and more. I adored Cowboy Up, not to pick favorites...who am I kidding I’m choosing Clay he’s definitely my favorite of the Coming Home boys.

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5 "You look like nothing but mine" Stars!!!!!

"One night of being bad with you, Caroline, and I felt more with you in the darkness than I’ve ever felt with anyone else in the light."

My heart, OMFG my heart!!!! 😩😭 The last installment in the Coming Home Series was every damn good thing! Finally, FINALLY I got my Clay book! Ever since the first book (Lost Rider) I wanted, but more importantly NEEDED Clay's book. There was so much more to learn about him, and I so desperately needed answers.

"He turns his head toward me. I’m unable to see his face, which is still hidden by the shadows, but I can feel his eyes on me. Their scrutiny is almost like a physical caress."

Caroline, oh beautiful, sweet and shy Caroline. She's trying to deal with the aftermath of a toxic relationship. Moving and needing to breathe again, Caroline gets in her car and makes her way back to Pine Oak, home. Along the way she finds herself at her friends bar. And without knowing that a mysterious black cowboy hat wearin' stranger is about to take her on a ride of her life.

"You make me need everythin’ I never wanted."

Clayton Davis, oh that dark cowboy stole every piece of my heart. I couldn't for the life of me get enough of him. Clayton was a tortured and broken soul. I hurt for him so much. And I desperately wanted him to have all the happiness in the world, because he deserved it so much. And a shy, sweet as apple pie bookstore owner was going to turn his life upside down for the better.

Clayton and Caroline were made for each other. Without knowing that their hearts gravitated towards the other. Both seeking solace in one another. The trust they had in each other took time to gain, but in the end it was beautiful. They were everything good. I couldn't get enough of these two. I found myself having the biggest smile on my face throughout the whole book. I just loved, loved, loved Clay
and Linney so much.

"We all have ugly in our past, sweetness. You just have to realize it was really life teachin’ you a lesson. When you find something that finally proves all that ugly was worth survivin’, it doesn’t look so bad when you see what kinda reward you get in the end."

As much as I'm sad to see this series come to an end, I'm so happy at the perfect way it ended.

Love This! Cowboy up is a fantastic conclusion to this series. Sexy broody hero and our shy and sweet heroine ! Match made!

Once i started this series I was completely hooked and loved all the characters, I knew that Clay would be my favourite Davis sibling and I wasn't disappointed! this was my favourite book in the series and they are all fantastic.

After seeing Clay in the first two books in the Coming Home series and him being portrayed as the eternal cowboy bachelor, never wanting to settle down I was so excited to read his story. What I loved is that usual these men always fight what they are feeling but Clay doesn't I am loved and devoured every single swoon-worthy word he spoke! It was going to take someone special to knock down his walls and to do is so easily was beautiful.

I am gutted that this series has ended but I have loved every single journey we have taken with the Davis clan. Harper Sloan certainly knows how to give you characters you love and adopt straight away, she draws you in with your love for them and her brilliantly flawless plotlines and writing. I can't wait to see what Harper Sloan brings us next.

I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Readers Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review from the author and Inkslinger PR

4.25 stars-COWBOY UP is the third (and final?) instalment in Harper Sloan’s contemporary, adult COMING HOME erotic, romance series focusing on the Davis siblings- Clayton, Maverick and Quinn Davis. This is thirty six year old rancher and eldest sibling Clayton Davis, and thirty year old book store owner Caroline Michaels’ story line. COWBOY UP can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Clayton and Caroline) COWBOY UP follows the building relationship between Clayton Davis, and Caroline Michaels. A one-night stand between strangers had our leading couple fantasizing about that night two months earlier only to discover that Clayton Davis was Caroline Michaels’ one-time, best friend’s oldest brother, and the high school crush she apparently forgot. After an invitation to Quinn Davis’ baby shower, our heroine will come face to face with the man with whom she will fall in love. Enter Clayton Davis, rancher and eldest Davis Sibling. What ensues is the building romance between Clayton and Caroline, and the potential fall out as both of their pasts collide in a game of jealous revenge.

Caroline Michaels left the town of Pine Oak, Texas immediately after high school to escape the gossip mills and rumors, and the mother who made her entire life a living h*ll. Her return to Wire Creek, Texas to open up her dream bookstore comes with ambivalence and a yearning to be free of the past-a past that almost destroyed our heroine’s life. Clayton Davis doesn’t do relationships in light of heartbreaking childhood and the fractured family dynamics of the Davis clan, as well as the bitter memories of a woman who continues to demand and push Clayton into a second chance.

The relationship between Caroline and Clayton is one of immediate attraction; a one –night stand that turns into something more when Caroline and Clayton bond over past betrayal, broken hearts and parental rejection. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

All of the previous story line couples play secondary and supporting characters including Maverick and Leighton (Lost Rider #1), and Quinn and Tate (Kiss My Boots #2). We are introduced to Caroline’s best friends and bar owners Luke Hazel, and his twin sister Lucy, as well as Caroline’s ex John Lewis; her mother Misty Michaels; and Clayton’s ex Jess.

The world building continues to focus on the Davis family-their growing love and support for one another, once destroyed by the very people meant to bring happiness and peace. There are two epilogues that fast forward the story line approximately one year, and another that looks fifteen years into the future.

COWBOY UP is a story of family and friendship; romance and love; betrayal, jealousy, revenge and obsession. The premise is heart warming and tearful; the characters are colorful, charismatic and welcome; the romance is passionate and seductive. COWBOY UP is an amazing tale about two people, one family and the struggle to move forward from demons of the past.

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Loved it so much, learning to let go of the control you have over our life can be so hard, but to do it for the chance of love is even more daunting. This book is about learning to let someone in and to learn to love, trials and tribulations abound for these two characters. Well worth a read and this book certainly has the alpha man cowboy who is super hot as well btw.

Favorite Quote: “I knew it was time to cowboy up the second my good girl gave me her bad and together we made magic.”

The third and final book in this trilogy featuring the Davis siblings – and I licked up this book like it was made from sugar. Listen – it’s sappy. It’s over the top in the emotional department. There is insta love and an over protective hero and a sibling relationship that is – over the top. But it’s the book I needed this holiday season!! I adored the first two books in this series, and this one just made me feel squishy happy and I’m sad we are done with this family but I look forward to more from this author. I had never read her before I picked up book one, and she makes me happy with her grumpy, grunty heroes…

“Pleasure,” I rumble, my voice just as thick as my cock.

…and heroines who make me smile.

Clay Davis is that grumpy and grunty hero. He wears a Stetson low on his head. He runs his family’s ranch. Once a womanizer, he is done with sleeping around. He watches his brother and sister find the love of their lives and realizes that he may be missing out. One night while having a drink at the local bar, a woman sits next to him – and there is an instant flirtation.

This woman is our heroine, Caroline. Getting out of a super controlling relationship, and having that same ex still harassing her with phone calls, Caroline drives the short distance back to her hometown for a drink at a bar, which one of her best friends owns. Caroline has a small, very close-knit group of friends that are also her family. Estranged from her mother, Caroline owns a bookstore and lives above it. When she plops herself down on the bar stool, her best friend vouches for the cowboy sitting next to her, but she doesn’t know his name and she can’t really see his face with his Stetson so low. But she notices his long fingers, and muscled thighs. Caroline is a bit shy, but for some reason, this low talking cowboy gets her going

“Want to?”

Pulling my eyes from the strangely erotic sight of his hand, I look toward his shadowed face.

“Want to what?”

“Be bad, sugar.”

Heat hot as fire washes over me with his words. Holy cow. My jaw works, but words elude me. I don’t even know this man’s name, let alone anything about him, and if my rusty knowledge of flirting is right, he just propositioned me. Why I find that as hot as I do, I’ll never know, but before I even know what’s happening, my brain finally figures out how to get the words past my shocked jaw.

“I think I do.”

She ends up in a motel room with him. After sex in the dark, a shower in the dark (do people really shower together in the dark??) and this cowboy leaving before the sun comes up, Caroline has no idea who rocked her world that night. But she is sated and content.

When a fire erupts in her store, and burns down her apartment above as well, she is devastated. Moving in with her best friend from her hometown, she runs into Clay Davis – and he runs into her – and she realizes he is the one she slept with! They know each other from years earlier, and Caroline is close with his sister and sister in-law. Clay sees her again and knows he can’t let her go a second time. They basically fall in love immediately and I was there for it.

The rest of the book is a lot to do with Clay’s brother and sister, as they are both expecting babies and there are a lot of emotions. The siblings are VERY close. They have deep talks all the time – like when Maverick is terrified about his wife giving birth and Clay is there for him….

“I won’t be able to move on if I lose her,” he continues, completely ignoring my attempt at lightening the mood and I realize just how much this has been weighing on him.

“Maverick,” I hiss through the thickness in my own damn throat and pull my brother into my arms. His own come around me with bruising force.

“Can’t talk to her about this shit, Clay. I don’t want her worryin’ about it when she should be focusin’ on all the happy shit, but it’s tearin’ me apart just thinkin’ about losing her.”

“Fuck, brother.”

Clay doesn’t think he ever wants kids, and Caroline is not sure she can be with a man who doesn’t want a family – don’t worry – it gets settled pretty fast. There isn’t a ton that happens in this book, as Clay and Caroline are basically in love by the half way point. But it held my interest. Since book one, I’ve been invested in this family so spending time with the siblings and their drama with having babies made me very happy. It would probably be best not to read this as a stand alone so you can experience all of the family dynamics leading into this book.

There is some ridiculous suspense at the end which I could have lived without. But we get a lovely epilogue and then another epilogue and it made my heart smile. Damn it.

I had so much fun reading this series. Totally escapism, which I need now and then.

Grade: B+

This was a sweet romance. I like stories where you get both characters' points of view in alternating chapters. While our main characters definitely had their pasts to overcome, once they figured out how they felt about each other, the main drama and stress in the book came from outside issues, exes or dealing with the loss of Caroline's bookstore or else her horrible mother. It's nice to read a story where the people in love are able to know that and not have to stress back and forth and not trust each other or push each other away. Sometimes it is nice to read a "perfect" love story, and this is definitely one where that takes place. There are very steamy sex scenes, but also very dreamy romantic scenes. There are also good family members, on Clayton's side, as well as some great friends of Caroline's. There are babies, and a wedding as well.

I did have a few scenes where the sexy bits kind of jarred with the sweetness, didn't quite fit seamlessly together. And there was a lot of crying at the end that seemed a bit overdramatic to me, as well as some of the professions of love did get to be a bit much. But overall I enjoyed the story, and would definitely love to go back and read how the other couples got together. I'm sure if I'd read all the books in order, it would have made the epilogue set 15 years in the future mean more to me.

If you like a sweet romance, without drama between the lovers, steamy sex between them, flirting, funny friends, all of that, this is the book for you!

This was so amazing! Cowboy Up is full of so much heart, healing, and love. I absolutely adored it. I've loved the entire series but hands down this was my favorite. It was the perfect way to wrap everything up!

I have wanted Clay's story since book one so I was really excited to start. Clayton is so protective and caring, and will do anything for his family. He also had a way with words that made me swoon. I loved Clay, learning all the ends and outs of him and what made him tick but it was Caroline who really got to me. She’s a shy, timed thing so learning her history and watching her open up and become stronger was amazing. Clayton and Caroline have an unconventional first meeting that's filled with so much passion and chemistry and from there, everything evolved. I was so hooked and ate it up. It was fun and sweet and sexy, it was also so incredibly emotional. I was laughing and crying and rooting for them.

Not only is there Clayton and Caroline's story, but there is also more of Clayton and his siblings so I felt like there was a whole bunch of mini stories happening. I loved it all so much! I adored the updates about where everyone was at in their lives and what was going on, and seeing those bonds and connections. It was truly fantastic. I am such a sucker for male bonding and sibling bonding, and I got choked up a countless amount of times thanks to all these wonderful moments they shared. As much emotion as they brought, they also brought the fun. There was a great mix of playfulness and camaraderie that made me smile.

You really get everything with this. There is passion and heat (seriously with the heat - this is one hot freaking cowboy!). There's drama and a bit of suspense. There's a beautiful love story happening that is so incredibly sweet. People healing and coming together and becoming stronger. It was just so well written and thought out. Great pace and build and I loved the details. And that epilogue, it wrecked me in a good way.

This has been such an incredible series and I love how everything was tied up and finalized. I feel so much closure. I felt this one deep. Beautiful story!

Caroline and Clayton spent one anonymous night together. A few months later neither one of them has forgotten the other so when they unexpectedly meet again they each take the opportunity to see where this thing they have between them will lead.
This was a deeply romantic book with just a tad of angst and then some small amount of extreme drama toward the end. Once Clayton had a second chance at Caroline he was all in. She had never felt the love of any man, much less a good man and her heart is instantly ensnared by her dark cowboy.
There were times when I actually got a bit bored with all the sweet, romantic dialogue between these two. The angst was so low there was nothing really driving their story. For those who love such a story, this one is going to be the perfect read for you. The epilogue was great giving us a look fifteen years into the future.
This is an honest review of an advanced copy provided by NetGalley and
Dual POV
Some ow drama but the hero hasn’t had anything to do with her for several years; some om drama although, again, the heroine had nothing to do with him for several years
Possible triggers – domestic abuse

Netgalley EARC
Angst 2
Tears 1
Value 5
Storyline 5
Panty Scorching 5
Overall Rating 5

Well, well, well….. Ive been waiting for this book for what seems like forever. And the wait was worth it. If you’ve not read the first two books in this series please stop here. I don’t plan on a spoiler but it could happen. If you have….. OMG!!! EEEEEEPPP!

Harper once again makes me swoon for her characters. I love them! Especially Clay and Caroline. I have been waiting on his book and I just knew it in my heart that he would be my fave. I was right! What I didn’t expect was to fall for Caroline as well.

I love this series so much! I couldn’t get enough and waiting for each book was so worth it. I am sad that the series is over. I want more. I will definitely be recommending it to anyone looking for a cowboy read. I mean how could I not???? LOVE THIS SERIES HARD! THIS BOOK EVEN HARDER!

I admit, the first book in this new series by Harper Sloan didn't thrill me too much. But then again, I may have to go back and read it a second time to see if my mood changes. But this book, my god, I had all the feels with Clay and Caroline and their love story. I found this story easy to read, the pace worked well, and in the end, Harper gave us a beautiful wrap up of the Davis family that will make her readers very happy.

One night brings these two together in a passionate romance that makes your heart melt. They manage to get through every trial and tribulation thrown their way, and come out stronger, and more in love, in the end.

I would highly recommend this book!

4.25 STARS

In this third installment to author Harper Sloan’s Coming Home series, Clayton Davis—the eldest Davis clan sibling—finds his HEA in the arms of his very own “damsel-in-distress,” Caroline Michaels.

Still battling the psychological aftereffects of an abusive relationship, Caroline endeavors to break free of her shy and reclusive nature. Throwing caution to the wind, Caroline has herself a one-night stand with a dark and sexy cowboy—a cowboy that turns out to be none other than Clay Davis—her once secret high school crush.

With his siblings off basking in marital bliss, Clay finds himself shrouded in loneliness, despite the long hours he puts in each and every day. But Clay has been burned badly in the past, so he’s resolved to remain unattached. That is, until a night of passion with a quirky book store owner turns into something so much more.

Both Clay and Caroline have been hurt by people from their past, but they refuse to let that past define them. So, while they might be a little bent, they are definitely not broken. And building upon their undeniable connection, together, they endeavor to move forward. But sometimes the past collides with the present, threatening to tear down all the good that has been built.

One of the things I love most about Clay and Caroline’s love story, is that any angst they endure is derived from external forces, as opposed to issues between the couple themselves. Time and again, I was assured of their unwavering love and felt confident that, in the end, they would find the HEA that they sought.

“Cowboy Up” is a sweet, romantic, emotional ride. It’s also hot, hot, hot! I love that Clay is strong and dominant but also tender and caring—the perfect mix of swoony and alpha male. Rising above her abusive past, Caroline proves to be both strong and determined. Slowly, she opens herself up to Clay—risking her heart and additional hurt—and willingly takes another chance on love.

While “Cowboy Up” can be read as a stand-alone, established fans of this series, will, no doubt, be delighted to “catch up” with their favorite characters from books 1 & 2. A quick, romantic read, Clay's story is one you won't want to miss!

Cowboy Up was the perfect ending to this series. Clay has always been quiet about his personal life and his past. Caroline found her dark cowboy again by pure fate. Who knew how they'd find each other again. Harper did a fantastic job with this series and stepping out of her usual businessman story. These Davis siblings really captured my heart and made a home for themselves there.

My 4.5/5 star review is posted on Goodreads and will be posted on blog and social media on release and links will be updated. UPDATED 12/18/17

4.5/5 stars
I have been anxiously awaiting big brother Clay's book in this series. He has been the strong, stoic, responsible one taking care of his siblings, Maverick and Quinn. Now they are both finally settled, happy, and in love. He works hard to run the family ranch and is a bit grumpy, controlled, and closed off. He had a relationship go bad a few years ago so now he does not do them, and fights his loneliness with occasional hook ups.

On one such hook up he meets Caroline. She is a shy, quiet, sweet loner who owns a bookstore in a nearby town. She has also been in a bad relationship and is gun shy and wary. She is lonely, but tends to hang out with her twin best friends and enjoy her romantic books. But on the night she needs to escape something in her life, she ends up spending some amazing time with the hot, dark, cowboy.

It was a night they found hard to forget, and when their paths cross again, it does not take much to fan the flames and make them want to spend more time together. They have a connection, chemistry, and pull to the other they cannot deny. And these two guarded people start opening up and seeing that maybe they really could find someone to love and get more than they ever thought they could have.

Clay is a swoony hero. He is charming, supportive, tender, protective, and sure of himself when he knows what he wants. And Caroline is not totally quiet, she can be fun and animated around people she is comfortable with. Clay makes her feel safe enough to gain confidence and strength. And they are mature. They talk and communicate. They do not jump to conclusions without getting information. It was actually so refreshing.

Granted there has to be conflict. There was background drama and suspense. They both had some crazy exes, painful pasts, and Caroline especially had some serious issues happening in her life. But I loved that this was not full of a ton of miscommunication, dumb fights, and relationship drama.

This one is not as dark, heartbreaking, and angsty as previous ones. It is uplifting, sweet, sexy, and is my fave of the series. It really focused on personal growth, finding hope, healing, love, home, and building families. Clay's whole outlook on life and the future changed so much between seeing his siblings fall and being with someone who respected and appreciated him. And I loved seeing Caroline feel safe, confident, and empowered through Clay's love. We get to see progression with Maverick and Leighton and Quinn and Tate. I love how this family stands together despite how their parents hurt them. They are nosy, supportive, protective, and just keep getting stronger and healthier as they add more to their family. But I loved that the men in this series can be emotional, the men cry, the women cry, and they made me cry. There was just so much love and beauty that these couples found in the wake of painful pasts. I liked her twin friends, Lucy and Luke as well. They fit right into this crazy group.

This is a great way to wrap up this series of troubled siblings finding love in rural, Texas. It gave me everything I needed, all the way to a wonderful, far reaching epilogue.

Clayton’s story has been a highly anticipated read for me and it was so worth the wait. He is the oldest Davis sibling and takes his position in the family very seriously. A father figure to his brother Maverick and sister Quinn, he has seen them both fall in love and settle into their own happy lives. Like a proud dad he has stood by them through the good and bad times with a sense of pride.

Clayton has never seen the same sort of future for himself, his past experience with a woman he thought he might a have a future with left him with a bitter wall around his heart. He now works from sun up to sun down and occasionally beds a woman when he needs the release. Everything changes when a beautiful girls sits down beside him on a bar stool one night.

Caroline is orginally from Pine Oak but hasn’t been back for years after being cast aside by her mother when she left to be with her then boyfriend. Her fairy tale dreams were soon squashed when he revealed his true personality traits and she bore the physical brunt of those. When the chance to get away from him was there, Caroline took it and has been able to make a life for herself in a nearby small town running her own book store.

It is by chance that Caroline meets ‘Davis’ the night she goes into her friend’s bar for a drink. In fact, she hardly recognises herself when he strikes up a conversation with him. She is quite introverted and shy but this gorgeous cowboy is stirring something in her that she wants to explore. One night of incredible sex with a hot cowboy could be just what she needs right now and when he asks her to be ‘bad’ with him for one night her panties pretty melt away.

"Want to?" Pulling my eyes away from the strangely erotic sight of his hand, I look toward his shadowed face. "Want to what?" "Be bad, sugar."

When Clayton and Caroline’s paths cross again he is determined, this time, not to let her walk away from him. That night they spend together changed something in Clayton and he is feelings things for Caroline that he never has before. It’s like she was made just for him and he knows that the feelings he has are not one sided. Caroline feels the connection too and it almost feels too good to be true.

"But my dark cowboy won’t twist my trust into something ugly. He’s a good man—always kind to others, humble in his pride, fierce with control, and worthy of respect. My heart feels the safety within his promise. My mind recognizes our connection without doubts."

Now this wouldn’t be a true cowboy story without some baddies right? There are a few nasty people with vendetta’s against not just Caroline but Clayton too. However, for the first time in her life, Caroline is facing them head on. Clayton makes her feel brave enough to stand up to the people in her past who have hurt her, she finds incredible strength in Clayton’s love for her.

"I’m finally living a life free of trepidation and wild with adoration. Who would’ve thought that one night with a dark cowboy would heal my soul of fear?"

This was everything I hoped it would be, with plenty of storyline that featured Maverick & Leighton and Tate & Quinn.

"I knew it was time to cowboy up the second my good girl gave me her bad and together we made magic."

What a fantastic ending to the spectacular Coming Home trilogy. Cowboy Up is a story I have been so looking forward to. It is the story of the eldest Davis sibling but it is also the conclusion to the emotionally charged and beautifully written series.
Clayton’s story has been one that I have wanted to read since book 1. I have to say, he was very much worth the wait. Clay is the oldest and has been the parental figure to the younger Davis siblings. He is a man who is strong, quiet, at times irritable and moody in previous books but in this book he shows a side that was rarely seen- tender, loving, giving and full of love. So much love that he was bursting from the seams with it. This is a man that I knew lurked in the previous books and was dying for his story to be told, because he is the kind of guy that women long for and I knew this was my book boyfriend and I totally claimed him as soon as I started reading …CLAY WAS MINE!!! Clay’s woman was not someone who was weak, oh no. She was someone who had been thru a lot and Caroline meets Clay when she went out looking to let off some steam at a bar. She has this crazy life going on and needed a release from the pressure building up inside of her so her friend Luke introduces her to a cowboy he knows…Clay. They have this wild night together and when it was over, the connection doesn’t go away. Their chemistry is intense and strong, and that night stayed with them after it was over. 2 months go past when they meet up again. Caroline has had a run of very bad luck –she is currently homeless after her bookstore was set on fire. They meet up again and that chemistry is still burning hot and bright between them. Clay and Caroline find that they want to see where this connection, this chemistry would take them after they haven’t had the best luck in the relationship department. Will they find that this is real and true, and worth fighting for?
Cowboy Up is a beautiful and emotional read that is packed full of emotion, passion, and feels. There is a story that the characters leap out at you, grab you and keep you hooked from start to finish. I also enjoyed getting to revisit with previous characters from the past books and what I also fount interesting is that, not only is this a romance, but a romance with a villain(s). Ms. Sloan has written such a lovely and sexy cowboy story with a great HEA. I look forward to reading what the author has coming up next.

My Rating: 4.8 stars *****
“I received an advanced copy of this book from the author at no cost to me."

I’m a huge fan of Harper Sloan’s Corps Security and Hope Town series which both feature alpha, military heroes and intense, suspenseful plots. So, when she announced the Coming Home series, I was excited to see what she’d do with cowboys, and Sloan delivered in this series with heartwarming, sexy stories rich with emotion and plenty of small town, down-home-everyone-in-your-business drama. Cowboy Up is the third book in the Coming Home series, and my favorite of the three books.

I’ve been looking forward to Clay’s story since the series launched. More of a parent than just an older brother to his siblings, Maverick and Quinn, Clay was the stable, guiding force in their lives after their mother abandoned the family leaving them with a harsh, angry, indifferent father. His focus was on them and the family ranch. Clay’s history with his ex-girlfriend was tumultuous and left him, understandably, with an inability to trust easily. He’s convinced himself that a relationship isn’t for him, that he’ll never marry or become a father, but lately, since both of his siblings have found love, married and are expecting their own children, he’s become lonely.

Caroline left Pine Oak behind the day she graduated high school, taking off with her boyfriend to escape a stifling, overbearing and verbally abusive mother, and in the process, she wound up leaving a very bad situation for what became a nightmarish one. Five years later, she’s returned to the area after escaping that abusive relationship, and she’s living her dream of owning her own bookstore. She meets Clay, and they share a sexy night together that neither was able to forget, and it’s a few months later before they run into each other again. Clay and Caroline had explosive chemistry from the very start, something that didn’t dim in the months that they were apart. That initial meeting was what it took for them both to realize what they were missing. In each other, Clay found a woman worthy of his trust and his love, and Caroline found a man with whom she felt safe and loved.

Sloan penned a warm, sweet and sexy love story in Cowboy Up that was uplifting and hopeful. This book was something markedly different from her previous works, and it was precisely those differences that kept me rooted in place and devouring this story. Readers should be excited about this side to Harper’s writing and the possibilities of where this author will go next. Cowboy Up by Harper Sloan gets 4.5 smooches from me.
~ Danielle Palumbo

Having been waiting for the final installment in Harper's Coming Home series, it was nice to finally get to wrap up with Clayton's story. The eldest Davis brother one of the more mysterious characters in the first two books so the build up was quite intense. The way this story unfolds matches just his character. From their meeting (in a bar, nonetheless) has Caroline and Clayton's story as the more unconventional of meetings. The rest of the story follows suit with the most drama of the three books. Though there was a high level of emotion in this book, there was an unbelievable amount of drama that was more jaw-dropping than it was relateable. From Clayton's crazy ex to Caroline's shady past, the secondary characters in their lives made for a hugely bumpy ride to happily ever after for this pair. The writing was easy to get through and the story was definitely gripping and hard to put down. A nice, albeit dramatic, end to a sweet (and, at times gut-wrenching) cowboy series!

This is the third book in the Coming Home series. It is a standalone, but I really enjoyed reading about these three siblings getting their happily ever after.

This is Clayton’s story. Clay is the oldest of the three. He’s the protector. He knows that he won’t ever get what his siblings have.

After a one-night stand, he wants that though. He’s finally found someone, but he walks away.

Caroline is the extremely shy girl that wants to be bad.

I did love the changes in Caroline. She really came out of her shell.

The storyline was predictable. I knew right away who the “bad guy” was.

This was still a good, and enjoyable read.