Let cowboys in blizzard conditions, life-saving animals, and three women who love them all, entertain you.Wyoming Sundown is about family, fate, and a perilous journey.Frustrated after years of inactivity, Clint McAllister creates a challenge, a contest that will bring the McAllister men together again. At least that’s what he told his wife, Alice. Though the idea lifted his veil of ongoing … depression, it placed his sons, Trace and Troy, in great danger. Will these cowboys agree to take their dad’s challenge and ride horseback across the remote wastelands of Wyoming in the dead of winter? Alice is furious with Clint and his foolish plan. It was almost Christmas, a bad time for such nonsense. This impossible competition had disaster written all over it, so she dreams up a secret agenda of her own that includes Hannah and Ivy, her sons’ fiancés. The women head to Wyoming and prepare for the holiday. The presence of canines, kittens, a small boy, and a strong-willed horse infuse the worrisome situation with laughter and joy.But too many days pass with no word from any of the men. Had the covert, unspoken portion of Clint’s grand plan gone terribly wrong?
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What A good book for a weekend read when in the mountains, on vacation. Well done, well plotted, worth the time to read!
Book 3 in the McCallister trilogy is an excellent wrap up book. Lots of tension, drama, and mystery are prevalent throughout the story.
The main storyline is a challenge Clint issues to his sons, promising a treasure to the winner. While Troy and Trace decide to play along, they vow not to let it drive a wedge between them. All three men face trials and danger on their separate travels through rough winter Wyoming territory.
My chief takeaway on Clint is he’s a very old-fashioned father and husband. He’s a hard character to warm up to as he refuses to accept help, support, and love. While his wife must be a saint to put up with him, she has a slight bit of coldness to her as well. Perhaps this comes from years of living with Clint.
All our favorite characters from books one and two are present in Wyoming Sundown. They certainly bring warmth to the story. From the horses, dogs, cats, and even lovable little Billy, we know good things must be in store for this family.
The Christmas season theme is delightful. Nothing creates a warm, happy, feel-good ending like a saved Christmas. Due to the HEA genre, I don’t believe this is a spoiler.
I feel the author left just enough threads to continue the storyline if she desires. However, Wyoming Sundown does a fine job of tying up loose ends to call the series finished.
I recommend Wyoming Sundown to lovers of Western romance, clean fiction, and family-related fiction.
Clint shouldn’t have planned such a dangerous journey in the middle of winter for himself and his sons just to get closer to them. His wife Alice was judgmental towards her future daughter-in-laws. She didn’t want Billy to call her grandma because he wasn’t her son’s blood related child. Poor Oatie the dog was shot and fell off a cliff. There was plenty of action dealing with the winter weather, wild animals, and human poachers and thieves.
Clint, in a wheelchair as a result of an accident 15 years ago, issues a challenge to his sons – to ride their horses through the untamed wilderness to his cabin in Wyoming in early December. First one to arrive wins a prize. Not content to pit his sons against each other, Clint secretly plans to ride his horse to meet them. They all face some scary difficulties along the way, none bigger than Clint. His wife Alice, and the sons’ fiancees conspire to meet them at the cabin, and eventually everyone but Clint shows up.
This book is a departure from the romance books I usually read. I liked Alice – most of the time. But she didn’t want to play Grandma to little BIlly because he’s not her son’s child. I pretty much figured Clint for a nasty old you-know-what, mad at the world for the health problems that were his fault, and selfish to include his sons in his plan to prove he’s still a man. All in all, I really liked the story, enough that I’d like to go back and read Troy’s and Trace’s stories.
I didn’t read the blurb well enough to realize that this is book 3 of a series. I wish I’d read the others, as I feel I would have had more insight into the family dynamic at work. That being said, this can still be read as a stand-alone.
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While this book can be read as a standalone, reading the sons’ stories might have added more in-depth understanding of the family dynamics. This is the first book I’ve read by Cricket Rohman and I am intrigued by Troy and Trace’s stories, which were referenced and seem more along the line of romantic suspense. To me this book is more Western women’s fiction than romantic suspense. There is some action and suspense, but also family tension, developed relationships, and love. Ms. Rohman does a good job pacing the story and throwing in a few twists and unexpected turns.
Clint’s decided after fifteen years of paralysis and the following depression, it’s time to reunite his family by issuing his sons a challenge. Meet in the middle of nowhere Wyoming, via horseback, right before Christmas. His wife, Alice, isn’t a fan of this foolhardy idea, and unbeknownst to her, Clint is partaking in the challenge in a modified form, based on his disability. What could go wrong? Three tough cowboys, taking off across the wilds of Colorado and Wyoming in the dead of winter, no problem.
As tough as the author portrays the men in her story, her heroines are equally as strong and determined to spend Christmas with their men. Add in a few canines, kittens, a small boy, and a strong-willed horse and the cast is complete. Ms. Rohman weaves a great story of the power of family and determination. The very things that lead to the settlement of our country. I look forward to reading the other books in this series.
Good read, lots of emotions, family relationships, and of course romance.
This author knows how to keep her readers coming back for more.
If you like reading about the drift of a family’s story then read this series.
I read mostly nonfiction but I’m a horse owner, so the cover of Wyoming Sundown got my attention. I wasn’t disappointed. In fact, once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down. Clint McAllister, the eldest member of the family made up a crazy, dangerous plan for his grown sons to ride horseback across Wyoming in the winter. It’s a wild ride. This book has it all. Mystery, poachers, Christmas, women the men love, and horses. Magnificent horses. I’d recommend it to any reader.
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Wyoming Sundown by Cricket Rohman is book 3 in The McAllister Brothers series. This is the first book I read in this series but descriptions in the story gave me the background information that I needed. I loved the detailed descriptions of the trails and the characters. Quite a few on the edge of your seat moments but it all came together in the end! What a good story this was! Now I just have to go back and read the first two books!
An adventurous Western Romance with lots of ego, turmoil and drama. This is my first of this series to read and I feel it would have went better for me had I read books 1 and 2 first even though they can be stand alone. Sometimes you need that extra background you learn in previous books. Not a style I am usually fond of myself but it did draw me in and keep me reading to the last page so overall was a good book. As I said I probably would have enjoyed it more had I read the other two first. If Western romance is your style I am sure you will like this series.
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A real page-turner. I enjoyed learning more about the McAllister boys and their relationship with their parents. I also enjoyed learning about the Spanish Barb horses, I had never heard of them.
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Wyoming Sundown is part of a series yet each book can be read as a stand alone story. I did feel a little bit lost in the history of some of the characters by not reading the previous books in the series so now I want to go back and read the previous books. This is the story of family, fate and a contest. There are moments that are intense, there’s some action and moments where you’re unable to stop turning the pages. In the end the family comes together and can celebrate Christmas together. Good story line and great characters.
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It is Gunner’s and Amigo’s story too.
Where I can understand what Clint wanted to do but it was something that could go so very wrong. Then there is the selfish part I am not sure why some people have a hard time just being instead of needing their reputation to be something out of the world. Now Trace and Troy are just as bad as Clint and they agree to the challenge. This is a powerful story with characters of strength and courage. I highly recommend and hope you take a chance and pick it up. I did receive a free copy of this book and voluntarily chose to review it.
What an interesting story of family, fate, and a contest before Christmas. Clint McAllister was an angry man who liked to control everyone. I think his accident many years ago made him bitter. I really did not like him in the beginning because his dangerous contest pitted his two sons, Trace and Troy against each other. The contest was also very dangerous for everyone involved.
I really liked the ending and how the family was able to come together and celebrate Christmas at the No Name Ranch. I also really liked the other characters in the book. Trace and Troy and their fiancees, Heather and Hannah and Clint’s better half, Alice were all wonderful characters and I liked that the No Name Ranch got a new name.
This book is full of mystery, action, and some scary, riveting moments that kept me spellbound into turning the pages. I received an advance copy of this book and I willingly chose to write an honest review.