She’s a surgeon with places to go, he’s a cowboy with a killer smile. A wedding brings them together, but will her ambition drive them apart?Eamon thinks he has love and life figured out. A successful accountant, full of confidence and charm, he’s got it all, including the beautiful girlfriend and the high flying job. But when his brother inherits a ranch in south Georgia, he leaves everything … leaves everything behind to help him run it.
Emily Zhu is a driven and ambitious surgeon from Boston. Everything in her life is structured and planned, down to the last detail. When she doesn’t get the job she’s been promised and has been working toward, it seems everything could come tumbling down around her. Suddenly the future is clouded with uncertainty.
When Eamon and Emily’s paths collide at a wedding, they fight an immediate attraction. Eamon could be the only person who can help Emily find her feet in a world where nothing makes sense. The one to show her opportunity where all she sees is failure. But will she be willing to give Eamon a chance to prove he’s the one thing she really needs? And what will they do when an unexpected tragedy strikes at the heart of everything they’ve fought for?
Travel back to the Cotton Tree Ranch for another summer of fun, horses, and burgeoning love. Read this sweet and heartwarming contemporary romance from bestselling author, Vivi Holt.
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Nice, shy, competent, uptight Emily has spent her entire life conforming to the demands of her parents to succeed, exceed, and excel in all ways. Having completed her residency and accepted an offer at the hospital of her choice in Boston, she flies down to Georgia to participate in her friend’s wedding to a cowboy. Okay, he owns the horse breeding ranch on which she is invited to stay while enjoying her first break in years. And then everything seems to break down (yes, bad pun intended). Narrator Dawson McBride’s rich, gravely voice provides a soothing background to the drama which ensues as tragedy befalls the ranch and Emily must choose her path.
Emily Zhu is a Surgeon, just finishing her residency at the Brigham Hospital in Boston. When she travels to Tipton, Georgia for her friend’s wedding, the furthest thing from her mind is falling in love! Eamon Williams is an accountant, but he and his brothers are running a horse ranch and he loves his new life. He, too, isn’t really interested in love, but things happen!
Emily’s dreams of working at the Brigham are dashed and she is left without a clue of what she is going to do with her life. Add in the fact that she comes from a very traditional Chinese-American family and her future has suddenly become complicated. Her whole life has been planned for her by her parents and she doesn’t know if she can go against them in order to pursue a very different path with the man she has come to love.
This was another wonderful sweet romance written by Vivi Holt. Just as expected, there are some bumps along the way as the couple tries to find their way to be together, but the happily ever after ending that Ms. Holt’s readers have come to expect is here. Ms. Holt has a wonderful way with words and her books are always very descriptive. Wonderful characters and a wonderful storyline make for a great book!
The narrator, Dawson McBride, has a very soothing voice and at times it was almost too soothing! The volume on my Kindle was turned up to the maximum and at times I had difficulty hearing the book. But, all in all, he did a wonderful job and added to my enjoyment of the book.
A minor complaint (really a pet peeve of mine): The cover characters did not depict the description of the characters in the book. I know it is a minor thing, but it still bothers me. Eamon was described as “blond” or “sandy” haired, but the cowboy on the book has very dark hair. Also, the woman on the front doesn’t look like an Emily Zhu to me.
I was given a chance to listen to this book by the author and chose to review it.
Emily came for Hazel’s wedding. She stayed for rest and relaxation. Eamon at first didn’t know what to think of her found himself growing more attached. She couldn’t see how they could go anywhere she was Chinese and her parents wouldn’t approve of him. He was an accountant not just a cowboy but he still wasn’t good enough. She had found another job as a go in town and she would be able to do surgery at the hospital.