She’s fresh out of jail . . . He’s fresh out of luck. Spoiled billionaire heiress Emery Brighton indulges in one mimosa too many, attempts to steal a horse, and winds up in jail. A sentence of community service leaves her at the mercy of strangers on a remote ranch near a small town in Oregon. Adjusting to country life is hard enough, but she has no idea how to handle her growing affection for … how to handle her growing affection for a surly cowboy and his adorable daughter.
Steady and dependable as the day is long, rancher Hudson Cole just wants to raise his little girl and be left alone. When his grandmother invites a lawbreaker dressed in Louis Vuitton to Summer Creek Ranch, Hud is convinced Grammy has lost her ever-loving mind. Determined to detest Emery, he instead finds himself doing the one thing he vowed would never happen again: falling in love.
With one foot out the door, will love be enough to convince Emery to stay?
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I loved this story of opposites attract. Emery and Hud are amazing characters, both afraid to reach for love. Then there’s a sweet little girl- Hud’s daughter- Cricket who adds so much depth to the story.
she is arrested after trying to ride a police horse. then her dad and uncle send her to a ranch to serve community service in town, he is running the ranch and trying to stay ahead of everything including his daughter. can they get along and will she see there is more to life than spending money and getting into trouble i was given a copy of the book but this is an honest review. if you have read any of the other books you will love this one. if not if you like cowboys and children you will want to read the book, i could not put the book down looking forward to the next story.
I adored reading this book!
A great start to the new series,
Summer Creek.
Shanna Hatfield, has done it again!
It’s a captivating & heartwarming story,
filled with laughter, & small town charm.
Emery, is a spoiled rich girl, who feel
she’s entitled to do & get what she wants.
Hud, is a rancher & a single father to his
adorable daughter, Cricket.
When Emery shows up at Summer Creek
Ranch, Hud wants nothing to do with
her. She is exactly like his former wife.
But she made some very bad choices,
& not needs to pay the price.
Can’t wait for Book 2!
I loved it from the first word to the last!!
Hudson Cole lives at Summer Creek Ranch with his 6-year-old daughter, Cricket, and his grandmother, Nell, in a small town in Oregon. After the abandonment and then death of his wife, Hud is content to spend his days working the ranch and raising his daughter.
Emery Brighton is the spoiled daughter of a billionaire, used to big-city life and having her father and uncle, a judge, get her out of trouble. When Emery’s latest stunt lands her in jail, they decide it’s time she accepts the consequences.
Emery’s uncle is old friends with Hud’s grandmother and enlists her help in having Emery stay at their remote ranch while performing her community service in Summer Creek. Emery and Hudson both think otherwise until they start spending time together.
Catching The Cowboy, Book 1 of Summer Creek, begins a new series for Shanna Hatfield. Whether you are a long-time reader or a beginner, you are in for a delightful tale. This story possesses all of Ms. Hatfield’s trademarks that we have come to know and love – hunky cowboy, feisty heroine, matchmaking, humor, cute animals, historical facts, and, of course, a happily-ever-after. She also chose to use special covers for this set and the first one could not be more perfect.
I received a free Kindle copy of this book. I volunteered to read it and write a review.
Loved this book! The compassionate firmness of Emery’s dad and uncle in taking her to a beloved small town away from her past tell of love that teaches. Starting anew with basic clothing and no electronics compared to designer clothing and endless money puts Emery in a place where she realizes she is responsible and accountable for the things she did that landed her in the small town. As she struggles through the learning of everyday living tasks, she begins to be proud of her accomplishments. This is a wonderful enforcement of the human need to feel proud of their daily accomplishments no matter how big or small. She starts as a spoiled, immature brat and becomes a woman who lifts up a town with her spirit of thankfulness for their acceptance of her into their small town. Kudos!
Catching the Cowboy by Shanna Hatfield is a story of personal growth, finding love, and deciding what is important in life.
Will Emery survive this exile? Or will she wind up Catching the Cowboy of her recent dreams?
Emery Magnolia Brighton
Emery is our main character. She is a spoiled rich girl who doesn’t know anything about taking care of herself, although she is intelligent as she has a couple of college degrees, including an MBA. At first, it’s like whoa, this girl is so full of herself. But then after everything her so-called friends post about her on social media, I felt sort of sorry for her. I think that what her dad and uncle did to her was heartfelt and that they had her best interest at heart.
Emery struggles without her designer clothes and money, but she figures it out over time. You can see her grow as an individual. Emery’s confidence starts to come back but without that snotty hooty totty air that she had before. It is delightful to watch how Emery grows and how she chooses what is important to her. I think she is a fabulous character and that she is going to help bring Summer Creek back to life.
Hudson Cole
Hudson is in charge of Emery’s community service and her. He judges Emery on her looks the first day, but he is respectful and protective. Hud (as most people call him) has his hands full running his ranch and helping his sister with her ranch. You can see how loving he is by his interactions with his Gram and daughter. However, I love the way he is with his sister. They have such great rapport, and the way that Jossy picks on Hud is hilarious. Hud takes most things in stride, but he has been hurt before and doesn’t want to be again.
I like Hud and the way that he is there for his family. You can tell how much they mean to him. He works hard and still finds time to spend with his daughter Crickett. I admired his dedication. Oh, and he is a romantic at heart.
Five Stars
This book is the first that I have read by Shanna Hatfield, but I truly enjoyed it. She has a way of bringing everything to life. I could see the whole ranch and town in my head. Oh, and the ending is perfect. I also like how the author shares her inspiration for the story at the back of the book. This story is such a sweet romance that I am giving Catching the Cowboy by Shanna Hatfield five stars. I am recommending it to all of you, sweet romance readers out there.
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A good, clean, inspirational romance that shows people can change. Emery is a spoiled rich girl who made an awfully bad choice and must pay the consequence working at a ranch without any of her “rich” resources. Hudson and his grandmother Nel run the ranch; Hudson dislikes her from the start as Emery reminds him of his late wife, but his daughter falls in love with her. Can Emery adjust to working for a living and meeting her community service hours?
Will love be involved?
I loved this beautifully written story with well-developed characters and would recommend it. I look forward to the next book in the series.
After one too many mimosa’s Emery tries to ride a policeman’s horse and gets caught. Since she is spoiled he father wants to teach her a lesson so he along with his judge brother send her to a ranch for community work. She lives with widower Hudson and her daughter along with his widowed mother Nell. At first she thinks she can never adjust to ranch life but it does not take long for her to realize that this just may be the life for her and Hudson and his daughter Cricket sure makes her want to stay. Hudson has closed off his heart after the disaster of his first marriage but the more time he spends with Emery he thinks she is what he and Cricket needs in their life. Loved this sweet romance and all the characters but my favorite is little Cricket. Great read that is hard to put down.
I didn’t know if I could get behind Emery’s character at first. She came off as a selfish airhead and I was insulted that she has an MBA. That degree requires leadership through the numerous group projects and dedication to study and complete assignments. The girl who drunkenly tried to ride a police horse didn’t seem like she had those skills. But she proved me wrong in this book. Cricket was precocious with her show and tell about having a criminal living with her family, her cute little expressions, love of baby animals, and the way she thought about a poor child and gave him her Easter basket she won. Her father Hud was a sexy cowboy even if he was a little stubborn and judgmental based on past experiences at times. His grandmother, Emery’s father and uncle were a riot. I loved Hud’s “wonder woman” independent sister Jossy. I’m looking forward to her romance.
One amazingly written romance that should be shared with everyone.
Shanna Hatfield has an amazing heart and it just pours out in her writing.
This is the most enduring love story, I’ve read this year.
Newly released from jail, Emery is a spoiled-rich girl lacking any domestic skills. Her failed attempts at cooking, well maybe more like burning, breaking drinking glasses, as if they would magically re-appear, leaves The Cole’s wandering if their kitchen will survive.
Hud has his reservations whether she can uphold her obligations, as well as probation terms here on the ranch. Hud and Emery are two opposites from two different worlds, which adds to this beautiful love story.
Cricket melted my heart with her upbeat enthusiasm, charm, and desire for a mommy figure.
Nell and Jossy are strong caring ladies who give Emery the courage she needs to stand up for herself and too prove she can become a new person.
Just wait until you meet Ethel, she’s more than just the town’s wayward pet, she takes it upon herself to be the children’s chaperone at the school.
The power of love and belonging, is the heart of this book. Very few books have moved me the way this one did, it really hit close to my heart.
It’s a must read for EVERYONE, who adores romance and happy-ever-after.
I highly recommend this book, be prepared to be amazed, it has changed me forever.
Emery was gone to far now so she needs a kind of punishment. She got sent to a ranch to work and do community service. Hudson isn’t happy that she has to stay on his farm and take care of his daughter. While working and learning she discovers what she really wants in her life…….maybe even catching the cowboy.
Great entertaining story about redemption, friendship and love.
A fun start to a new series
I wasn’t quite sure what to think when I read the synopsis of this story. I know I like Shanna Hatfield’s books but was unsure how I could like a character like Emery. The type to get drunk and attempt to steal a horse?
At the onset, even when Emery was sobbing in a jail cell, I wasn’t a fan of hers. After all, even her tears were selfish. Yet Ms. Hatfield knew just how much to show of Emery’s spoiled character before allowing enough of a glimpse of her heart to make me not want to stop reading. I was quickly able to see deeper into Emery and found that she wasn’t irredeemably awful. And I found myself liking her and cheering her on for the way she threw herself into the community service projects she was assigned.
I did like Hud from the very beginning, though I had to agree with Grammy Nell that he was a bit dense at times, at least where Emery was concerned. He was a delightful, handsome, hardworking single father who doted on his little girl, affectionately known as Cricket. (Incidentally, I loved that Emery’s father called her Magpie – how fun that these girls were both nicknamed for their chatty nature!)
Being highly sentimental myself, I loved the way that Emery saw antiques and sought to find the stories behind them. The way this played out in her desire to revive the dying town was unexpected!
This is a fun, sweet, small-town romance with a hint of spirituality. Not enough that readers who prefer no religion in their stories will be offended – this mostly comes out in prayers before meals, a reference to attending church, and a reference to the changes in her character being related to a restored relationship with God.
While it was clear that Emery and Hud fell in love with each other for their personalities, their physical attraction played a part as well. A little more than I am comfortable with – of her admiring him with his shirt off, or one of them bending over and the other ogling – things like that. Otherwise, the story is clean.
If you enjoy romance in a Western setting, I can recommend Catching the Cowboy. I’m looking forward to reading more from the Summer Creek series!
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I was given a copy of this book. I was not required to give a favorable review nor was any money received for this review. All comments and opinions are my own.
After an ill-fated marriage, and an abandonment, and then death of his former wife, Hudson Cole has sworn off women. As a single father, Hud has all he can handle with his spirited daughter, Cricket, his get-it-done grandmother, Nell, and a widowed sister living down the road…not to mention managing a large ranch. The last thing he needed or wanted was a spoiled Daddy’s girl working off her community service hours on his ranch, and influencing his daughter. Determined to ignore the beauty, he finds himself doing the one thing he’d never wanted to do again…fall in love!
Emery Brighton, the wealthy, spoiled daughter of a billionaire, was used all the rewards of a rich man’s daughter. In the past, all her transgressions had been swept under the carpet…but not this time. Public intoxication, attempting to steal a policeman’s horse, bribing an officer of the law has her before a judge…her uncle, the judge. Her sentence of three hundred community hours on a farm out in the middle of nowhere is just the beginning of Emery’s problems. As she adjusts to life on Summer Creek Ranch, she learns to care less about herself, and more about the community she is beginning to think of as home…as well as her feelings about one very handsome cowboy and his sweet little girl.
Ms. Hatfield has done an outstanding job of creating believable character arcs for both Emery and Hud. The pacing is spot on, the dialogue witty, and the plot is believable and contemporary.
Whether you are a longtime fan of Ms. Hatfield or a first time reader of her books you will be in for a treat. Hud and Emery’s romance is a great beginning to what readers can expect to see in future books about Summer Creek. I can’t wait to see if Jossy and Parker get together. Of course, there’s Laini Sullivan, Knox Strickland, Nathaniel Knight, Jason Hart…..
With considerable historical and contemporary romances to her credit, author Shanna Hatfield has once again dipped into her creative essence to bring her readers a new series. Ms. Hatfield’s trademarks-hunky cowboys, feisty heroines, adorable children, matchmaking senior citizens, and an animal or two with minds of their own, and interesting historical facts, all make for a wonderful, love-filled, swoon-worthy romance with a HEA in the little town of Summer Creek, Oregon.
I received an ARC from the author and this review is my honest opinion.
Hudson Cole was a hardworking rancher and single father to little Cricket. When his Grandmother takes in a friends troubled daughter, Emery Brighton, life begins to change in the Cole household. This book is full of wonderful characters, faith, family, blossoming friendships, and of course love.
I have to say that this story had me laughing out loud so many times.
Right from the beginning I was hysterically laughing at the wit and sarcasm this author loves to use. I loved this story. It is one of my favorites of this authors stories, and I love them all.
How does a rich girl with whatever she wants, and all the money she could want, get herself in enough trouble to get sent away for several months to a backward, small town that is falling apart, to live on a ranch to work and also to do her community service that she was sentenced too?
The cowboy on his family’s ranch is not happy she is staying there as all he sees is a spoiled rich girl who doesn’t want to be there, but is overruled by his grandmother but he is more in charge of her and has to send in reports on her and how she is doing.
The problem is she is beautiful and he starts to see a sensitive side of her that he really likes, but he promised himself he would never get involved with another beautiful woman again. Can he ignore her charms?
This is a wonderful comedic romance and redemption is a great part of this story.
There is so much in this story that is fascinating that I highly encourage you to get this story.
Catching the Cowboy by Shanna Hatfield is the 1st book in a New and Wonderful Series, set in the Fictional Town of Summer Creek. Of course, with this book being written by Shanna Hatfield, a reader will get a book absolutely full of Sass, Fun , and just a downright, Delightful read. Emery, a spoiled little rich girl, is about to get the starch taken out of her designer clothing and see how the true working class get by each day.
Hud is about to have his perfect, hard working world rocked by the very type of woman, he swore would never turn his head again. Add to this a doting Grammy, a precocious little curly head sweet child, one loved by everyone Goat, and you have one of the BEST fun-loving books you will read all Summer.
Shanna Hatfield should be crowned the Queen of Sweet Western Romance.
If you only read one book this Summer, then let it be Catching the Cowboy for it was not only a great romance but a fantastic story of redemption.
Oh wow been reading Shanna’s Historical for years and love this new series – I laughed and cried while reading this story – I her writing is always to descriptive that you feel that you are right there with the characters on their journey – the police horse scene was truly a hoot and Emery and Hudson finally get their act together and find their HEA – can hardly wait on the other books!! I received a bookfunnel copy and freely leave my opinion of the book!
Great new series from Shanna Hatfield! Don’t miss this sweet contemporary romance set in the little town of Summer Creek. When a spoiled, rich socialite gets arrested for “orderly ducks, and public decencies” she is sentenced to live and work on a ranch while performing community service. She’s not expecting to find a hunky cowboy, with a young daughter and his grandmother. As she finds herself and a purpose for her life she realizes that all she ever wants is right there on the ranch. You will laugh until you cry and love these characters! And you will often think of the old saying “little pitchers have big ears”. As always, Shanna Hatfield is a masterful story teller and brings the people and places to life.
I really enjoyed this story and can’t wait to see where the series goes. Emery is essentially a nice person, but she is very spoiled and one moment of bad decisions lands her in court in front of her uncle, the judge. She just knows her dad will help her, but his version of help isn’t what she was expecting. Next thing she knows, she is stuck in the middle of nowhere on a ranch where she has no idea how to do anything. Hud is surprised when Emery shows up to stay with them. His granny is sure that Emery will learn and change. Hud isn’t so sure. He had one spoiled, rich wife and that didn’t end well. The only good that came from his marriage was his daughter. As Emery changes, Hud is seeing that she is different and maybe not so bad after all. Everyone makes mistakes, right? He wants her to stay and is sure she will be gone at the first opportunity. Will she stay?
Catching the Cowboy is the start of a new series from Shanna Hatfield and definitely is worth your time! I enjoyed the banter between the characters, the reminder to not judge people by their outside appearance and the opportunity to watch Emery redeem herself and find herself in the process. I recommend finding a quiet space and time so you can read this excellent and engaging book in one sitting as you will not appreciate life’s interruptions!