4.5⭐️

I really enjoyed this book. I adore both West and Indya. From the start there is something you know happens at some point in the book and you would think you’d be prepared but it broke me when I read it. This is a second chance romance on a ranch, so small town which is basically all my favourite tropes rolled into one. I really enjoyed this and I am excited for the next book.

Thank you for the arc in exchange for my honest opinions.

Welcome to Haven River Ranch - Montana! Yes baby, we are back in Montana! So so glad to have another series by Devney after saying goodbye to the Edens last year!

This is such a great start and I absolutely love how Devney easily creates a small town universe with her writing style that pulls you in from the get go.

“Crossroads” is the first book in the series and is a second chance, childhood sweethearts, cowboy romance! West & Indya were just perfect - their chemistry and angst was so on point, the sexual tension & spice was perfect.

We experience their love over multiple summers through flashbacks and these flow with the current timeline so effortlessly. Their friendship growing into teenage summer love was beautiful but also heartbreaking as they kept meeting at the wrong times. A truly star-crossed lovers story. While I loved Indya’s strength and determination of building up the business back, I also admired West’s love for his ranch, his cattle, his care for his family inspite of the imperfect dynamics with his dad. Their story is just so endearing - she was a clumsy girl visiting the ranch and he was the handsome boy who taught her poker one day & soon she is the one who got away and he is a grumpy man she just cannot resist.

As expected, the whole setup, family, friends, side characters were well done. Indya’s relationship with her dad, and how she deals with the loss of a parent was an important theme of the story. I finished the book in two days and enjoyed every bit of it. Also, West’s brother Jax is going to be the star of the second book and I am pretty excited to see him more!

(I will be posting my review to my Instagram & Goodreads: @booklover_swii on Release day tomorrow. )

I will read anything Devney Perry writes. I’m so happy to be getting a new series from her. She’s everything you want from Kindle Unlimited and more. All of her books pack such a punch while being so easy to read. Also she does an excellent job of setting up, her next book will not be too obvious about it!

Thank you #netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

-childhood friends
-forced proximity
-second chance

5 beautiful shimmering stars! easily a new favorite book & a new comfort read. this one gives all the summer romance vibes! i loved the dual timeline and getting to see the characters relationship slowly progress over time.

this book pulled at my heart strings!! in the past timeline we see indy and her family visit a small town ranch in montana for a vacation. west is the ranch owner’s son and indya takes an instant liking to him wanting to be friends. this vacation allows her dad to step away from the stress of work and actually relax which leads to it becoming an annual trip (some years are missed here and there but for the most part a yearly trip). indya looks forward to seeing west every year and we get to see the organic progression of their feelings especially as they start to understand what it means to them and how it fits into their lives. the past shows the immature yet deep feelings they have for each other that are surrounded by expectations and responsibilities but it truly does seem like the ranch is the only place indya really feels like herself. most of her fondest memories are created during these weeks spent in montana. west has so much pride in his family’s ranch and knows he wouldn’t want to be doing anything else with his future

fast forward to the present and indya is now the new owner of the haven family ranch. west is blindsided by this news and has to adjust to all of his dreams being taken from him. the ranch wasn’t doing well financially and indya had the money to buy out west’s dad and is now the new owner. the present timeline has a lot of animosity, enemies-to-lovers vibes but also still holds that longing that they both share and those undeniable sparks. indya gets to work on revamping the ranch especially the resort side of things to help increase income. her and west inevitably grow closer and sparks are once again flying. seeing the older more mature versions of themselves really highlights how much growth each character has had through this journey. it was clear to see how west was so in love with indya and how indya had never truly moved on from west.

overall this book has all the nostalgic vibes. if you’re someone who grew up going on an annual vacation to the same spot (think beach house, lake house, camping, etc) this is going to hit hard for you. it’s going to bring all the emotions and feelings out and truly remind you of what summers felt like as a kid. indya and west have that special one of a kind love that truly never fades and i was so happy to see them be able to rekindle that throughout this book. i also loved that although west & indya are the main characters and the main relationship focused on, we also see a lot of family dynamics for both west and indya’s individual families from when they were younger to where they are now. it really felt full circle being able to see how their relationships with their families had changed overtime

there is something that happens in the book that i knew was coming the whole time and had expected it but even though i knew, it still didn’t prepare me for how emotional i was while reading it. i loved that this book had so many different moving parts and had me laughing, swooning, and even crying. it truly is a new comfort read for me and i’m already planning my reread soon because it’s just the perfect summer book

if you love dual timelines, summer vibes, childhood friends to lover to enemies back to lovers, enjoy great banter and the perfect amount of tension, angst, and spice, you will LOVE this one. its hands down one of my new favorite books by devney!!

Crossroads by @devneyperry **review**

What is a book you are excited to read in June???

I don’t even know where to start with this book, it’s that good.

Welcome to the Haven River Ranch series, and what an introduction! Childhood friends to lovers turned enemies to lovers 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
I just can’t get enough of West and Indya 🥰🥰🥰

I loved this one! Something about second chance and angst! This one also got me all in my feels because I related so much to what was going on with Indy and her father. Full tears! Also I just loved this setting and the vibes - gimmee all the cowboy! Can’t wait to see where we go either Jax!

“Hi, West.”
“Hey, Indy.”

THIS!!!! This is how you write a second chance romance.
ALL THE STARS 🥹 West & Indya are everything. I loved this book so much, it had me up til 1am to finish it!

“It felt like I’d been missing Indya my whole life.”

Crossroads had hooked me from chapter one. The angsty feels, the ranch setting, the past and present timelines that flowed effortlessly together.

The emotion this book put me through. I was sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for answers, waiting to find out why things happened the way they did and when it all came together it did not disappoint! MY HEART.

“I wish too, baby.”
😭😭

The emotion, tension, heartache, longing and wishes this story swept me away and I couldn’t put it down.

- Small Town Cowboy
- Second Chance
- Childhood friends
- Enemies to lovers
- Forced proximity

♡ Dual Timeline
♡ Dual POV
♡ Childhood friends
♡ Enemies to Lovers
♡ Forced Proximity
♡ Workplace
♡ Ranch

📍 - Montana
💕 - Indya & West

This was a really enjoyable read full of emotion and angst!

Our couple first meet as kids as Indya and her parents take their annual holiday at West's family's ranch. We see their bond develop over the years as they reunite each summer.

Now, in the present, Indya is the new owner of the Haven family ranch, which West is having a hard time coming to terms with as he's blindsided by the news of his father making the sale. There's a lot of tension and animosity between the couple, but underneath it all the longing and desire still remains.

Following this couple throughout the years, seeing their connection grow and how they ultimately find their way back to each other in the place they both love so dearly was very heartwarming!

"That was how it had been between us. We belonged to each other. Even when we didn’t."

Cws: Cancer, loss of a parent

I finished this a few days ago and I’ve found myself still thinking about it occasionally. I was so pleasantly surprised by this book.

This was a great childhood friends to enemies to lovers/second chance romance and throwing in the cowboy angle really just made it better in my opinion.

This book dealt with difficult topics such as family drama, grief, and loss by beautifully weaving it through the small town romance storyline.

I also loved the dual pov and the flashbacks to different timelines so we could get a better look at the main characters backstory.

This was the first interconnected standalone in the Haven River Ranch series and I’ll definitely be coming back for more.

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC in the change for an honest review.

4.5! I really enjoyed this one! I love Devney’s Montana romances. Second chance romances are my favorite. West and Indy’s story. They have secretly loved each other since they were kids but it just never lined up. Swoon worthy

childhood friends. second chance. small town. i trust devney to always deliver when these tropes are involved! this book was sweet and heartwarming.there was lots of longing and pining, and i was here for that too! indya and west’s love story was full of everything i love about a second chance romance!
indya and west meet as children over a summer, and slowly they develop a friendship. and each summer after turns into multiple summers filled with firsts. but as adults, they meet and things have changed drastically. now they get the chance to have a lifetime of firsts instead of summers of fleeting moments.
devney does small town so well! from the beginning i was in love with west and indy and their love story.

When I say, I ATE THIS UP!! A fantastic start to what sounds like an incredible new series, I absolutely devoured West and Indy's story. There was a lot of depth within these two characters, starting from a very young age and this beautiful second chance allowed them to reflect on what could have been and what now can be after years apart and growing separately. This was a delicious romance that will have your heart feeling every emotion possible. West is the most perfect cowboy and the way Dev describes him? SWOON WORTHY. New favourite book boyfriend has been created! I'm incredible excited about this series and can not wait for Jax's.

5 ⭐ 2 🌶

It's been a minute since I read a book in one sitting, but Crossroads was impossible to put down. West and Indya had my heart from the moment they showed up on page.

The mystery of this one threw me a bit. I thought I had it alllll figured out and then Devney was like, well, actuallyyyy and while I wasn't surprised that was the real truth, I still didn't see it coming. She hooked us along chapter after chapter, flash back after flash back and slowly brought us into the know and it was so well done.

This one made me a little teary. It's a fairly emotional read, especially if you've dealt with any of the topics within. The love that these two had for each other, even as kids, was palpable and the things dreams are made of. At times they felt so star-crossed and so when they finally said those three little words my heart just melted. I could honestly read about these two day after day.

This is my first Devney book, but it certainly won't be my last. While I wait for Jax and Sasha's story I'm gonna dive into her back list and see what other gems she has out there.

MY HEART!!

No one can suck me into a cowboy romance like Devney. I loved seeing West & Indy fall in love. They weren’t meant for each other & I was meant to read this book!!

Devney, you’ve done it again.

Indya spent a week a summer at a secluded Montana ranch during her formative years. Returning divorced and as the new owner was not in her original life plans, but she feels called to do so for her father, for her memories, for West Haven. The man she's admired since youth is no longer as welcoming of her, in fact the moment he hears the news of her purchase all heck breaks loose, but the pull between these two is like lightning striking.

I absolutely love a romance set on a ranch, there's something about it that feels like home to me after growing up in a small country town. While my horse riding days were predominantely in my youth, like Indya, it's the people and the memories that you cling to. Those summers marked happiness in Indya's life and the way Devney takes us into the past and ties those memories to the present was so beautifully done. I could feel the nostalgia from the pages, even as Indya and West squared off. Of course, it wouldn't be a romance if these two didn't have heat just licking up the edges of the pages. Indya and West have always had something, it may have been fleeting in the past, but it was something. While there's years between their last visits and their lives have changed, that something is still there and I really enjoyed watching the sparks catch and fly once again.

This one has a lot more heart to it, with a past of pain that Indya must work through and a rough family connection that West just wants to ignore. Crossroads tells a story of family bonds, first loves, and the way timing truly does work how its meant to. I really enjoyed this one, in fact I read it in one fast sitting with tears in my eyes, and I cannot wait to see where the rest of the series goes.

Crossroads is the first book of the Haven River Ranch series of interconnected standalones. This was my first book by this author and I devoured it in one sitting! I can’t wait to read more by them! I loved how this book went back and forth from past to present so we could learn more of West and Indy’s childhood relationship. You could tell how much they meant to each other and how special the ranch was to both of them. The angst and tension between Indy and West was so great and I was here for it!

I’m not gonna lie, there were some emotional topics discussed and had me crying my eyes out towards the end. I was so connected to these characters and felt all of their emotions. I think listening to the audio while following along with the book also helped me connect more. Samantha Brentmoor and Connor Crais both did an excellent job of portraying Indy and West and bringing them to life for me.

Can I rate more than five stars? Because if NetGalley had that option, I would. nThis was the absolute best way to start a new series. I don't know how Devney Perry's books keep getting better and better, but they do. If you love cowboy romances, small Montana ranches, second chances and tons of sexual tension, then Crossroads needs to be your next read!

Crossroads was the first romance in a long time to truly surprise me. Usually I can see where the story is going, but there were so many good twists, turns and surprises, that I never knew what would happen next. Told in dual POV with multiple timelines, the secrets between West and Indya slowly unraveled and had me immediately obsessed with their story.

"I stared because I knew how fleeting it was to see his face. How much I missed it when he was gone. Collisions on crossroads. West and I were nothing but collisions on crossroads. Sooner or later, our paths would drift apart again. We never seemed to be going in the same direction, and this time was no different. He’d stay because he belonged. I’d leave because I didn’t."

West and Indya are the epitome of opposites attract. I love a grumpy, stubborn hero and West Haven had that in spades. Indya was the only one that could break him out of his shell, with her kind heart and determination. There was so much yummy sexual tension and angst between the pair, I was happy that the spice hit earlier than anticipated.

My heart hurt for Indya. Even though she grew up with money, she never quite felt like she belonged anywhere. Even though she was strong AF, I completely related to her strength in the face of being dealt a tough hand. If ever there was an embodiment of TS's "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart," her character would be it.

Haven River Ranch feels so real. I could clearly picture it in my mind and I honestly would die to go on vacation there. The supporting characters weave such a tangled web and I cannot wait to see where the series goes next.

⚠️ CW: parent with cancer, cheating (off page)

I was not expecting to love this as much as I did?? My favorite Devney Perry book that I've read so far. This was second chance / childhood friends to lovers and it was *CHEFS KISS* Usually flashback chapters don't do much for me in terms of plot development but I thought they were really well done here. I can't wait to see what is in store for us next!

Read if you like
- small town
- cowboy
- badass FMC
- second chance
- Montana setting

Beginning when she was a child Indya and her family would spend their vacation on a ranch in Montana and a friendship developed between her and West, the owner’s son, who was two years older. Over the years that friendship developed into love however his place was on the ranch and her place was at home where she could be close to her parents.

The next times their paths would cross was when West learns that Indya is back not as a guest but as the new owner. Lack of finances have allowed it to deteriorate however Indya is determined to recapture the magical place that holds so many happy memories for her and her family. She was prepared the resistance from West and the employees, but she never expected how difficult it would be to protect her heart.

Now that Indya and West are at a different stage in their lives, they might just have the opportunity to rewrite the mistakes of the past and find a path forward. The emotional pull, both with each other and their families, will not leave you unaffected as the story transitions from past to present and the feelings they have always had for each other.

What a wonderful story to start out this new series from Devney Perry!

Crossroads is Book #1 of the Haven River Ranch series, and it was just a wonderful introduction to this new world! And I absolutely enjoyed watching West and Indya get their happily ever after they deserved. Normally, I don't like when stories go back and forth between past and present as it can get a bit confusing, but in this situation, it was absolutely necessary and done so flawlessly, for the reader to get the whole story of Indya and West. I loved seeing how they fell for one another in their younger years, but also how they reconnected upon her unexpected arrival back at the ranch. So many feelings between them, and even though there was some animosity toward Indya at the beginning, you could tell that West was always trying to hide the love he had for her that never went away.

It was just a feel-good, second-chance, small-town, friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romance that I just adored. Definitely looking forward to the next book in the series!