Fate put her in his path, and he has no intention of ever letting her go.Olivia Fairchild gave up her dream of being a competitive barrel racer at nineteen, to follow her first love wherever his life as an F15 pilot took them. When his plane was shot down months later, right before the birth of their daughter, Liv’s world shattered. She returned to her parents’ isolated ranch in Colorado to raise … ranch in Colorado to raise her daughter alone. One year led into the next, and before she knew it, her daughter was grown and gone—leaving Liv bored and cranky. She finds herself spending too much time on social media feeds, cyber-stalking the hot guitar player she met at a concert over the summer.
Ben Rice recognized her as soon as he saw her sitting at the bar. Liv, that was her name, and fate kept bringing them together. The first time he saw her, after his band CB Rice opened at Red Rocks, he watched her. She loved music—and she felt it. Not everyone did. She danced, she laughed, she smiled, she lived. That was why he remembered her name when he introduced himself at the end of the show. “I’m Liv,” she’d said. And he was ready to. He’d endured too many struggles in the last few years. He’d worked hard to keep the band going, and he wasn’t going to give up. With a new record about to be released, this was their year—he could feel it.
Used to getting what he wants, Ben pursued the reluctant Liv. But knowing he wanted more from her than she was willing to give, she told him following a man around the globe wasn’t in the stars for her. Been there, done that, retired the t-shirt. She had her own stars to chase this time.
When those stars fall around her feet, and Ben refuses to let her sweep them up alone, how could a girl not love him? And when she does, how can she let him go? A better question is how can she ask him to stay when she sees how bright his future could be without her?
This is book can be read as a standalone with no cliffhanger.
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Ben Rice lead singer/guitarist of the band CB Rice met Olivia after their performance at Red Rocks. He spotted her in the audience and sang to her.
Olivia ‘Liv’ Fairchild was at the concert at Red Rocks with her daughter Renie, her best friend Paige and Paige’s daughter Blythe. Much teasing occurred as Ben crooned his songs to her. It’s after the band left the stage that things got more interesting.
The seats the friends had scored for the concert were next to the VIP section and that’s where Ben and his band settled after their set to watch the rest. For Ben though he only had eyes for Olivia.
When he introduces himself after the concert we see just how clueless Liv is about flirting.
This isn’t the only time Ben is going to run into Liv and that becomes the catalyst for a interesting relationship.
Liv’s daughter Renie is heading to college, and every moment she can spend with her is special. Skiing they run into Ben again with his sons, and then Ben once more in Las Vegas for a Charity Concert. While Ben takes this as an omen, Liv decides she has to find herself as Liv before she can even think about a relationship.
Lots of Laughter, Tears and Some Sizzle.
“Fall for Me” (Cowboys of Crested Butte Book One) by Heather Slade is a great read. I enjoyed Ben and Liv’s story. This story has romance, passion, family, cowboys, musicians, and more. Great start to a series. I can’t wait to see what happens next in this series in “Dance with Me”. Highly recommend to all fans of romance, cowboys, and series.
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Fall for Me is the first book in the Cowboys of Crested Butte by Heather Slade and what an awesome way to have a second chance at love and life after death and divorce.
Ben, lead musician of his band CB Rice, divorced single father of two boys, who has lived life in the fast land for over two decades. Between having cancer, a bitter divorce and an intervention he realizes that life just might be passing him by and maybe just maybe there is someone out there who can give him his second chance at love and a life filled with happiness…Liv may just be that someone.
Liv, a widow at nineteen and now 20 years later with a grown daughter in college and a ranch she loves goes to a CB Rice concert which she have been following for a long time (loves the lead singer’s voice) with her daughter, her best friend, and her daughter’s best friend. While at the concert she meets the lead singer aka Ben Rice and therein lies an attraction that neither can get away from but with Ben wanting more and Liv not knowing how to have a relationship these two might be destined to be passing ships in the night….but fate has other plans an keeps throwing them together.
Each has past heartaches, insecurities, one living life on his terms, another doesn’t know how to open her life and heart to another and friends helping them to find their way to a fuller and richer life but can these two find a way to make it work and get a second chance at love???