A lovely small town romance boxset that is fun, smart, sexy, sweet, and extremely well written. I found myself engrossed in each story and didn't put it down until I finished the entire series!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this anthology about four sisters who didn't meet until the age of thirteen and became close as if they were raised by the same parent. When their grandfather becomes very ill, they all meet and move into his home located in Jasper Creek, Oregon to care for him. While in Jasper, they all meet men and have relationships that play out in separate novella’s that were a joy to read. The authors seemed to be in the same room while writing each story as they all were wonderfully written and flowed as if one author was writing. They created four stories I enjoyed that had the right amount of tension, romance and the ending you hope for in all cases.

I recommend this book for all romance readers and I also look forward to reading more works by all these authors.

Rating 5
Linda C

I enjoyed all 4 stories in this book. I love how they seamlessly blended being written by 4 different authors.

I.highly recommend this title.

Four of Harlequin’s most popular contemporary romance authors spin a tale about the four violet-eyed Hathaway Sisters in Sweet Home Cowboy. Each of the romances is lovely, with heroines worth loving, but some repetitive plot tropes got to me after a while. Also, would it have killed one of these authors to make one of the heroines experienced and older?

The Hathaway sisters agree to move home to Jasper Creek, Oregon to help their irascible grandfather Jack run the place after he has a heart attack. If they renovate and run the farm, he won’t sell it or the land. The girls are half-sisters, related through their father Mickey, who spread his seed unto the wind and helped conceive four daughters during the same year with four different women. The girls themselves only met for the first time at summer camp when they were roughly thirteen, a situation pre-arranged by their mothers and stepfamilies. Mickey has continued to be a roamer and has not been particularly involved in their upbringing. But they’ve created a lifelong bond which has brought them all back to the place where they have wonderful memories.

Teddy by Nicole Helm

Grade: B                     Sensuality Level: Warm

Teddy Hathaway is the eldest (by months) of the Hathaway girls, and the sweetest and most romantic among them. Her mother reacted to her father’s betrayal by encouraging Teddy to be fully self-reliant, and moving her all the way across the country to keep her away from the Hathaway influence. But sexually sheltered Teddy decides that the best way to make an adult life for herself and experience romance is to join her sisters in Oregon.

Enter Beau Riley (who appeared in Maisey Yates’ A Good Old Fashioned Cowboy and is a member of the Riley clan of Jasper Creek series fame). Beau has been hurt by love, and by his family’s inability to express emotions – the exact opposite of Teddy’s emotional forthrightness and desire for a man who can communicate. Can these two figure out how to love each other without Beau’s fear of feeling love getting in the way?

I really liked Teddy here, but I was also annoyed by Beau’s refusal to communicate like an adult because he was “doing this for Riley” and decided he was poison in Teddy’s life. And yet the audience ends up pitying him. It goes round and round in an annoying fashion for a bit but solidifies in the end. Overall, though, their connection is sweet, and it’s fun to get to know the sisters through this lens. But it’s still a nicely-done romance.

Joey by Maisey Yates

Grade: B                    Sensuality Level: Warm

Straight-shooter Joey Hathaway is a tomboy who likes fixing cars and riding horses more than anything else. She knows nada about love and how to make it, but she knows a handsome cowboy when she sees one.
Cowboy Hollis Logan restores old farm equipment, which means Joey needs his help refurbishing the farm’s tractor. She’d also like him to be the first guy to blow the cobwebs off of other parts of her body. But can a tomboy tempt a distant, broody cowboy?

If you like Yates’ typical style, you’re going to love this. Joey is yet another one of her hoyden virgin tomboy types who’s tough and fearless in non-romantic matters but totally has no idea how penises work (sigh), and I liked her whenever she didn’t have to worry about romance or sex. I still like how Yates delivers these types of heroines, but my kingdom for a non-virgin, please! Please have them use the internet! Hollis is your typical brooder, and he’s decided that a past history of heartbreak means no love for him. Together they work because Yates knows how spirited romance works.

Georgie by Jackie Ashenden

Grade: A-                        Sensuality Level: Warm

This is definitely the pick of the litter. Georgie Hathaway is a grumpy baker who is happier to concentrate on her professional life than her romantic one. Example of her grumpitude: she uses water guns on Teddy’s beloved chickens to keep them off her counter. Romance is the last thing she’s looking for after being abandoned by both of her parents in Jasper Creek, where she was raised by her older half-brother Felix.

Con Stone is Felix’s best friend, and he and Georgie and Felix have been friendly forever. A pickup game suggested by Felix results in Con and Georgie making a bet – the loser had to do chores for the winner. Georgie wins, and Con shows up in the chaotic midst of Georgie’s kitchen as she tries to bake for dinner with her sisters. In the span of a day, they get to know each other way better than they ever did before.

Ashenden comes out the queen of the heap with this one, which manages to be sexy and genuinely romantic and heartbreaking. Georgie and Con are basically latchkey kids who find true love together and it’s great.

Elliot by Caitlin Crews

Grade: B+                      Sensuality Level: Warm

The final story belongs to Elliot Hathaway, who is in a war of attrition with the girls’ nextdoor neighbor, Colt West. Things start to change when Elliot sees Colt naked by mistake one day, but she tries to tamp her feelings down. But really, with a butt that nice, who is she fooling? But Elliot, like Mickey, was born a drifter and like her own mother, goes from place to place, and she’s never been in love. Colt, too, has sacrificed romance to hovering over his daughter. Can Elliot ever settle down?

This romance builds up nicely, and is hinted at over the course of all three previous stories. Colt’s twelve year old daughter Katy is funny and charming and sensible and adds something unique on to the pile. The conflict makes sense, and it definitely makes sense that Elliot is like Mickey in some way. Colt is nice and steady and gruff but likeable. The end result is great.

The epilogue here is a tad bit cheesy, but earned well enough. Overall, Sweet Home Cowboy is a warm-hearted delight.

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I enjoyed all four stories in this anthology, but my favourite is of course, Caitlin Crew's story. Rooting for a 4th anthology as we still have one West brother needing an HEA, lol.

Sort of a little women retelling...

But set in Oregon and with four half sisters reconnecting as they agree to take on a farm and the cowboys they fall for. Each sister has a distinct personality that is reminiscent of Little Women prototypes.
I enjoyed these four short stories and can recommend.

4 sisters- different mothers, same father. Meeting at 13, the women get together in the hopes of inheriting their grandfather’s ranch. Each of the women has a different talent that meshes with the others. Each of the women find love and develop a wonderful relationship with their grandfather.

Celebrate family, love and sisterhood with a sense of humor, a twist of heart and all the flaws in between. Sweet Home Cowboy brings out all the warm and fuzzies with a hint of dramatic flair.

Sweet Home Cowboy is made up of four stories about the Hathaway sisters, each story by a different author concentrating on a different woman. They are half-sisters that met at a camp when they were 13 and have been as close as possible, living in four different areas of the country. When their reclusive, grumpy grandfather becomes ill, they all come together in Jasper Creek, Oregon to help and take care of him and live together on the family farm. As the sisters bond and become a family, they all meet their other halves to find love and a new beginning.

I enjoyed meeting The Hathaway sisters. Some were instantly likable (Teddy, Georgie) and some took a bit to grow on me (Joey, Elliot) but all were wonderful to each other. They each had their strengths and combined to make a wonderful, cohesive. loving, family. Throw in some animals, a barn kitten and some chickens that were supposed to stay out of the house, and I wanted to be there. Each story features a swoon worthy cowboy as well as some angst to keep the couples on their toes. I enjoyed Grandpa Jack's appearance in each story, especially when he is cradling a shotgun. Sister Sundays were such a great idea, I want to try that with my 3 sisters. It was a great way to catch up, discuss issues with the farm and spill out all their issues of their hearts. Overall this is a sweet, sexy book with lots of chemistry, love at first sight, and family. I will say that I enjoyed Teddy's story the most followed closely by Joey's. That's not to say they all weren't enjoyable, because they were. I am amazed how well these four different authors wrote these stories and intermingled them so well. I recommend this book to those who enjoy novellas dealing with family and romance with a little sizzle.

When I started Sweet Home Cowboy I didn't realize this was book three in a series, although I was still able to enjoy these stories without reading the others. Each of the anthologies is written by the same 4 authors, with each story about a different character, but tied together. Up to this point, Jasper Creek has featured four cousins (A Cowboy for All Seasons), four friends (A Good Old-Fashioned Cowboy), and now four half-sisters. I will definitely be checking out the previous books.

Sweet Home Cowboy takes us back to Jasper Creek for four more cowboy romances by four must-read authors. This time, we get four half-sisters and the cowboys who win their hearts. I enjoyed the sister Sundays and the quirks that made each sister unique almost as much as I enjoyed the romance - Almost, I mean these are cowboy romances, and I can not resist a cowboy. So, with these authors and the subject matter, this is a can't miss book. It's four romances, so that was four evenings curled up in my favorite chair, drink in hand as I got lost in Jasper Creek and its terrific bunch of characters.

Sweet Home Cowboy by Jackie Ashenden, Maisey Yates, Caitlin Crews, and Nicole Helm is a wonderful, connected compilation of romance stories reminding the characters of the strength and love of family. This anthology has the theme of siblings; actually, four half sisters who have come together to create their own version of home after their paternal grandfather suffered a recent health scare. Each sibling’s story is written by a different author and each story is of novella length.

Four local cowboys in Jasper Creek, Oregon, have no idea that “old” Jack Hathaway's recent illness is going to change their lives, forever. When Grandpa Jack gets sick, his four granddaughters come together in the small town to take care of him and his uncultivated ranch. These four young ladies, all fathered in the same year by Jack's ne'er-do-well son, met when their four different mothers sent them to the same summer camp at age 13, so they could get to know each other. Bonded as sisters for the past dozen years, they decide to join forces and help each other set up their dream jobs on their grandfather's dilapidated ranch. Now they are finally ready to support each other as they each find the cowboy of their dreams. Each sister has a unique personality and passion, and it was really enjoyable getting to know them one by one. They each have their own creative outlet, all of which blend together beautifully to create their "Four Sisters Farm" store a profitable place. It is difficult to pick a favorite sibling story; they each have their own strengths and the author develops them in weird, wonderful ways.

Each of these novellas are wrapped up in a truly charming epilogue, and what these 4 authors have created is a joyous, magical, funny, charming, and touching homage to sisterhood, womanhood, family and friends, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Bravo, ladies! I can't wait until the next collaboration.

Ms. Ashenden, Ms. Yates, Ms. Helm, and Ms Crews wrote wonderful and moving romance anthology that is not to be missed. Each story gives you warm tingles, emotion, and charming characters and the magic of family, that, by the end, you feel as if you know the minds and hearts of each of its characters, understand their loneliness, their hopes and their dreams. I highly recommend Sweet Home Cowboy to other readers.

I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.

Sweet Home Cowboy
Jasper Creek #3

Standalone quartet of splendid stories that put a smile on my face today as I watched four half-sisters find their happily ever after cowboy partners in Jasper Creek. The four women settle into their new home, soon to be The Four Sisters Farm, and in so doing the bonds that began to form at camp when they were thirteen only become stronger. I liked all four of the sisters and the men that they ended up with. Every couple had issues to contend with and did so admirably.

TEDDY by Nicole Helm:
Teddy ends up with Beau but only after she feels ready and he deals with some past demons from childhood. Teddy is a bee whisperer and loves chickens…sweet and charming but with a backbone

JOEY by Maisey Yates:
More mechanically minded, Joey likes to learn from experts when tackling new projects. Hollis is the man to help with the old farm equipment and perhaps he will help with a few other things, too.

GEORGIE by Jackie Ashenden:
Con is best friends of Georgie’s brother and has been there pretty much always until one day things begin to change and prickly Georgie is not sure what to think…even though Con is sure what he wants.

ELLIOT by Caitin Crewes
Elliot is the sister with the freest spirit and she openly embraces what she wants, Colt. Colt’s sense of duty almost derails the couple’s budding romance…until he sees the light.

All of the characters have some growing to do as individuals and as couples. It was fun watching them interact as I got to know them and the men they ended up with.

Thank you to NetGalley and HQN for the ARC – This is my honest review.

5 Stars

This is a heartwarming story which features four novellas by four different authors about Teddy, Joey, Georgie and Elliott. These four women all share the same father, but different mothers and they meet each other when they were teenagers. Even though there was a physical distance between them they shared an emotional connection so when their grandfather needs them, they don’t hesitate to put their lives on hold to be there for them.

The sisters are very different as well as their stories, but they were always there to support each other not only when it comes to their grandfather but also when love comes into their lives. Great characters combined with humor, heart and all the feels are sure to keep you entertained.

The best thing that Mickey Hathaway ever did for his four daughters was to leave before any of them were ever born – although some of their mothers would disagree. And not that his absence from their lives didn’t leave a “Dad” sized hole in all of their hearts. But that’s a hole that Mickey wasn’t capable of filling – whether he was around or not.

Teddy, Joey, Georgie and Elliott, in spite of being raised all over the country by four different women, share more than their gender-obscuring names, their violet eyes and their sperm donor. They are also all the same age, 25, as their deadbeat dad impregnated all of their mothers the same year.

(There’s a story there I wish we knew a bit more of, but it’s a humdinger all the same.)

They share a heart, a yearning to make a home together, and a curmudgeonly grandfather in tiny Jasper Creek, Oregon who has just had a heart attack but claims not to want their assistance or their presence. But grumpy is Jack Hathaway’s love language, so he might just be lying.

Whether he is or not, his health scare gives his girls the impetus they need to pull up stakes from wherever they’ve been and gather at the place their hearts all call home. The place where they have always wanted to put down roots and build the life together, as sisters, that they never had growing up.

Thus Four Sisters Farm is born. The four of them, pitching together with their creative skills and boundless love to fix the old ranch house that Jack has refused to live in for over a decade, work the land that has become a bit much for the old man, and build a self-sustaining set of businesses that will keep the farm afloat and in the hands of the Hathaway family even as it brings people and money to their little town.

Along the way, each of the sisters finds their own way to a Happy Ever After that none of them ever dreamed of when their journeys began.

Escape Rating A-: The stories in Sweet Home Cowboy are all stories of love and loss. The losses come first. It’s not just that “Dad” shaped hole in all of the girls’ hearts, it’s also the messages and the messes that each inherited from the mothers – the women that Mickey Hathaway left behind.

But it’s not just the sisters. The men that get swept into their lives – or sucked into the vortex they create – have also been through emotional wringers. The individual love stories in this four-leaf clover of a book are all about finding the person who makes you stronger in your broken places.

That his girls have come home to build their futures also helps to heal Grandpa Jack, which turns out to be the icing on this very sweet and lovely cake.

My favorite story of the four was Joey’s, written by Maisey Yates, who was is the organizer for this Jasper Creek series. Joey was the hard-nosed, practical, fix-it, “tomboy” of the sisters. She’s kind of a blunt object, and that object is usually a hammer – whether figuratively or literally. She the one who learned to stand alone and be self-sufficient at all costs, lest she be thought weak OR be let down by relying on someone who can’t be relied upon. Learning to let go enough to let someone else in is hard, but watching Joey finally figure that out was lovely. And, just as in so many of the author’s previous works, and the reason why I picked this book up in the first place, Joey’s perspective and her issues with the cowboy she falls in love with feel real and do not require a misunderstandammit to reach that HEA.

I also enjoyed Teddy’s and Elliot’s stories, although they were different in tone to Joey’s, because they were different people and occupy different places in the kaleidoscope of the Hathaway sisters. I have to say that Georgie’s story didn’t quite work for me as well as the others did.

When I started Sweet Home Cowboy I had no idea that this was book three in a series, although that didn’t impact my reading and I didn’t feel like I needed to know what happened in the earlier books in order to get stuck right into this one. All the books in the series are written by the same group of friends that wrote Sweet Home Cowboy, and are about groups of four women returning to Jasper Creek, which is near both Copper Ridge and Gold Valley, the sites of Maisey Yates’ other long-running cowboy romance series(es). So far, Jasper Creek has featured four cousins (A Cowboy for All Seasons), four friends (A Good Old-Fashioned Cowboy), and now four half-sisters. Sweet Home Cowboy turned out to be a delicious treat of a read, so now I want to go back and see what else has happened!

I enjoyed this book. I thought that it was great that you got all four of the half-sister's stories in one convenient book. Each novella length romance focuses on its own couple and while there is an overall cohesive feel, each heroine really has their own personality and I thought that breathed a nice breath of freshness into each entry. With plenty of heart and emotions, this read generates lots of feels.

The four Hathaway sisters may not have grown up together, and they may be as different as can be, that doesn’t mean they don’t love each other deeply. So when the opportunity arises to make a life together in Jasper Creek, they don’t hesitate. But what started as a chance to be there for their grandfather and start a life together, quickly becomes so much more.

I gotta admit, I’m pretty impressed with how well these authors manage to blend their voices. I don’t think I would have known that the stories were written by different people if they didn’t tell me. Each one is an easy-to-read mix of humor and emotion, romance and familial bonds, but still highlights the distinctiveness of each sister and the cowboy who captures her heart.

The newest anthology in the Jasper Creek series is a delightfully fun read. While I haven’t read the first two, and you really don’t need to, I’m definitely adding them to my TBR pile.

Sweet Home Cowboy is a delightful contemporary romance anthology that sparkles with emotion, intensity, poignancy and charm.

Teddy, Joey, Georgie and Elliot are half sisters who met at summer camp when they were thirteen years old and vowed to always be there for one another and never to let anyone come between them. Life has thrown many a curveball their way, but when their ailing cranky grandfather becomes ill, the sisters decide to come together and to help revitalize his ranch. It’s a decision they all agreed on and each and every one them is in no doubt that helping out their grandfather is the right thing to do – until they cross paths with four neighborhood cowboys who end up turning their lives upside down.

Teddy has always given relationships a wide berth. She has never met anyone worth putting her heart on the line for – until now. Is Teddy willing to take a chance on love? Or will her doubts and insecurities end up getting in the way of her happiness? Joey is at her happiest when she is getting her hands dirty on the farm. Relationships have always been off the cards for her, but will a sexy brooding cowboy end up changing her mind? Georgie loves baking up a storm in the kitchen, but in Jasper Creek, temptation comes in the form of a delectable cowboy who might be the most forbidden treat of all. Finally, ceramicist Elliot finds herself getting very hands-on with the grumpy single dad rancher next door.

As the four Hathaway sisters find themselves going on the emotional rollercoaster journey of a lifetime, they discover that nobody has your back quite like your siblings and that a sexy cowboy is always worth coming home to…

When an anthology has got Maisey Yates, Jackie Ashenden, Nicole Helm and Caitlin Crews’ names on the front cover, you know that it’s going to be dynamite and Sweet Home Cowboy is a highly emotional and immensely satisfying Western romance anthology that sizzles with heat, heart and humor.

The four Hathaway sisters are fantastic characters you cannot help but root for and the relationship between the four of them is sure to raise a smile while their love stories will touch your heart and even bring a tear to the eye.

Sexy, smart and scintillating, Sweet Home Cowboy is a fantastic collection of four irresistible novellas from four very talented authors you do not want to miss.

This is a fun anthology of stories that follows four violet-eyed half sisters who are starting a life together after not getting to be around each other much growing up. All four girls are roughly the same age since their no good father impregnated all their mothers’ and then left town. Each of their mother’s dealt with this in different ways and we see each of their choices play out in their daughters and how they regard love and life.

Each author takes a sister and gives us her tale of love with a cowboy and I was constantly blown away by how well the four authors worked together. The stories all work seamlessly together and it’s hard to believe it was more than one person writing them. Each of them had a firm grasp on not only her character, but everyone else’s as well. They also had the same perspective on the setting and I loved uncovering more about their farmhouse and plans for their future with every story.

While I loved all the different romances and the different tropes that they had, it was hard to really care about them when everything was happening so fast. There were so many great themes and ideas brought up regarding trauma from abandoned parents and loss in general and I think each author did a great job with such heavy topics. I enjoyed these things in each character by themselves but I didn’t really need to have the happily ever romances that went along with it. Three out of the four romances have a substantial virgin trope which made it even harder for me to believe these rushed romances. The exception is the last romance, which coincidentally, is not a virgin romance, that spans the longest and which was my favorite. However, all of them had rewarding emotional moments that make them all great romances. It is no secret around here that I am not a fan of epilogues but this one had me tearing up and was the perfect ending to the stories.

If you love romance and are looking for a collection of shorter stories than I highly recommend this one. The world of Jasper Creek that these authors have created is unique and fun but also has strong emotional moments. This is the third collection in this series and I definitely plan on reading the other two books I have missed and I have my fingers crossed for a fourth.

4.5 stars

You may have noticed I’ve been reading this series back-to-back, which is not always my way. I was offered a copy of this 3rd book in the series as an ARC and it finally got my butt in gear to read the other books in the series that I’ve been wanting to read since they came out. While I really don’t think you have to read this series in order and can definitely read each book as a standalone, that’s not how my brain works.

This time around we have 4 half-sisters. Their dad, Mickey Hathaway, was a cad and had gotten 4 different women pregnant within the same year. Luckily, the moms bonded in a way and decided to keep in touch so their daughters could know each other. They met in person when they were 13 and have been fast friends ever since. Only one actually grew up in Jasper Creek, but they all came “home” when their grandfather fell ill and decided to stay and start a business together. While they did stay at Grandma June’s house in the first chapter when they got to town on an emergency basis, they ended up moving to the abandoned main house on their grandpa’s ranch.

Teddy by Nicole Helm

Teddy is not the sister who lives in Jasper Creek. In fact, she moved the furthest to be there. Her mom was devastated by what Mickey Hathaway had done and had moved as far away as possible. She raised Teddy to never rely on a man and, in fact, to actively not trust anything they promised. Because of her kind and bubbly nature, Teddy took that all in but it didn’t make her cynical or brooding. Yet, she was a bit naïve to the world. She had a list of questions a man had to get through in order to even go on a 1st date with her, which was why she had never been on a date. She lived a pretty sheltered life and her mom had finally realized that Teddy, at 25 years old, needed to find some independence. So while her sisters went back to their homes to pack up and tie up loose ends, once the decision was made to live permanently in Jasper Creek Teddy stayed behind to start cleaning up the old homestead house. She knew if she went back to Maine she may not have the guts to leave again.

If you read the last book, A Good Old-Fashioned Cowboy, you know that Beau comes from a family that does not know how to show emotions. Teddy brings something out in Beau that he’s not used to feeling. Over and over he thinks that he needs to cut things off with her before he hurts her, but over and over he can’t seem to walk away. These two are really sweet together and kind of exist in a bubble. Teddy’s sisters know about Beau, but they don’t interact with him. Beau’s mom and sister know he’s seeing someone, but he hasn’t officially introduced them. And when it comes to the point in their relationship that their families may start to intermingle, Beau full-on panics.

I feel saying too much about why Beau is so afraid of love is a bit spoiler-ish, but his is a touching story and I even almost feel sorry for him. He’s erected so many walls to protect himself and he’s only hurting himself instead. Yet, that just leads us to a fantastic grovel scene with a ton of heart melting moments.

I would have liked to get to know the sisters a bit better, I felt I had a better understanding of the characters and their dynamics in the previous books. But that could be because this is the first of the four stories. That remains to be seen. ~ 4 stars

Joey by Maisey Yates

I adore Joey. She speaks her mind, is no-nonsense, has a pretty good head on her shoulders, and has no clue what she’s doing. Well, she actually knows a lot and is sort of a jack of all trades. But when it comes to relationships, be it romantic or familial, she’s like a fish out of water. Her habit of plowing forward head first into the unknown works for the short term, but really leaves her feeling afloat when it comes to long term ramifications.

Hollis is a very serious sort. He’s lived and loved and lost and decided he’ll just make due from here on out. No muss, no fuss. Hollis has a very caring and beautiful heart; he just can’t ever see sharing his heart again. Of course, Joey throws all of Hollis’ beliefs in how the rest of his life will go straight out the window. Not that she means to or even wants to, but some things are just meant to be.

This story is so much about discovery of self in two totally different ways. There is a conversation Joey has with her mom at one point and I appreciated a lot of what her mom had to say. We put on a different face for our children so they may think they know us, but they really don’t. Not really the way they think they do anyway. It was a surprising and welcome addition to this story.

I’m pleased to say I felt we got to know the sisters much better in this story. I felt I am much more invested in their relationship with one another now. ~ 4 stars

Georgie by Jackie Ashenden

The story of Georgie and Con is very self-contained. It really takes place over the course of about 24 hours, but their connection goes back years. So, while it seems fast, especially for prickly Georgie who hasn’t shown any interest in romance so far, it actually is a slow burn that was condensed to one day. This may or may not sound like a good thing to you, depending on your preferences in romance, but I strongly urge you to give them a chance. The pacing and development of Georgie’s HEA is written so well and with a lot of care.

Not only is the chemistry between Con and Georgie undeniable, both of their pasts are just raw and heartbreaking. They understand each other in a way few would ever be able to understand them. It’s also the thing that makes them both so terrified of going all in with admitting their feelings. This story goes in one direction and takes a quick u-turn that will have you pulling out your hair. Of course, we still get our HEA as promised. And it’s well worth the bit of pain we that is thrown in while these crazy kids figure it all out. ~ 5 stars

Elliot by Caitlin Crews
This is the coupling that is hinted at throughout the previous three stories, so it surprised me that the timeline seemed a bit off. Don’t get me wrong, I am amazed these authors can keep the timeline so well when there are four of them working to weave their stories together. They are extremely good at getting the character’s voices correct when it’s not their character, so to speak. For the most part, it’s easy to see where a certain couple’s story starts even while reading one of the other stories. I guess that’s why it surprised me that it felt off at first. That did not take away from the story, though.

Not to take anything away from the other main characters in this book and this series, but I love how much Elliot embraces her sexuality and goes for what she wants. Not that she’s unfeeling, she actually has a very soft center. But Elliot does not suffer fools and does not believe herself to be a fool. She believes she’s going in with her eyes wide open. But then, she’s also never fallen in love. Neither has Colt, for that matter. He may have a tween daughter, but she was not the result of any sort of long-term relationship. Colt loves his daughter, Katy, more than anything. He’s also taken protecting her and being her everything to an extreme level to the point where he doesn’t even realize he never does anything only for himself. He’s become quite dour and serious over the years.

Elliot and Katy hit it off right away. Elliot has a way of talking to her that boosts her up instead of talking down to her because of her age. At the same time, there is an undeniable spark between Elliot and Colt. All of the dynamics of this story are wonderful. Colt may think he’s playing it cool, but Katy and all of his brothers see more than he wants them to. Which helps in the end when they call him on his boneheaded reactions to Elliot and her obvious love for him and his daughter.

With Elliot being the more sensible of the sisters when it comes to relationships, her breakdown when things unravel hit a bit harder than the others. Those scenes were very well written and gave me all the feels. Plus, they culminated in a great grovel. ~ 4.5 stars


Summary: While I missed the magic surrounding Grandma June’s house, I loved seeing many of my favorite characters from those books. And the sisters living in their grandfather’s old house made a lot more sense to this book. These sisters seem to make their own magic, just in a different way.

Overall = 4.375 stars (we’ll round that up to 4.5)

SWEET HOME COWBOY (Jasper Creek Book #3) by Maisey Yates, Jackie Ashenden, Caitlin Crews, and Nicole Helm is a wonderfully heartwarming anthology featuring the four Hathaway sisters, who never wish to be called half-sisters, come together to revitalize their grandfather’s farm in Jasper Creek, Oregon. The four sisters are featured in four novellas overlapping in time in this anthology which is the third in the Jasper Creek series and can easily be read as a standalone.

I can only say good things about this anthology. Each novella took me on an emotional ride with each sister and her cowboy match through an instant love romance with just the right amount of heat. The consistency between all the romance timelines was very well done as one sister was the focal point in each story, but there was still crossover. Each sister and cowboy couple is unique and fully drawn for being novella length. The sex scenes are not behind closed doors, but they are also not gratuitous. This is just an all-around enchanting anthology full of love, family, and house chickens.

I highly recommend this anthology!