The best Christmas gift… is a second chance with her! Cody Jones is a good cowboy with a bad past. But he’s paid for his mistakes and is finally coming home to Barren, Kansas. Only this time, ranch princess Willow Bodine won’t be waiting. She’s gotten engaged to another man: Cody’s enemy. Now Cody must prove that a bad boy cowboy can change his spurs…and become the man Willow truly deserves … Willow truly deserves by Christmas.
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Kansas Cowboys
Book 1: The Reluctant Rancher
Book 2: Last Chance Cowboy
Book 3: Cowboy on Call
Book 4: Her Cowboy Sheriff
Book 5: The Rancher’s Second Chance
Book 6: Twins Under the Tree
Book 7: The Cowboy’s Secret Baby
Book 8: Mistletoe Cowboy
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I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley and I am voluntarily reviewing it.
This is book number 8 in the Kansas Cowboy series. While it is a part of a series, it can be read as a stand-alone. I haven’t read any of the prior books but I must say that after reading this, I will have to go back and start the series.
Cody Jones is a bad-boy cowboy. After a tragic event in his young life, the young boy took a wrong turn that would lead to trouble. Along the way, Cody meets the “princess” of the WB Ranch, Willow Bodine. The two would apparently make an instant, long-lasting connection. They would would break up and Cody would stand trial for arson.
The book starts with Willow learning of Cody’s early release from the Navarro prison. Willow is now engaged to be married to the prosecutor who helped send Cody to prison, Thad. Cody knows that Thad has a dark side to him. Cody still loves Willow and he wants to help her and to get her back to loving him.
This book is written in a multiple POV format. Not only do we get Cody’s and Willow’s but there is Willow’s BFF’s Cass’. This makes for a read that I couldn’t hardly put down. So not only do we get one love story but two really.
This is a sweet, clean romance that anyone could read.
I like to read second chance romance stories. This one was entertaining. The two main characters are Willow Bodine and Cody Jones. These characters are well-developed and realistic. The road to their Happily Ever After wasn’t easy but I liked seeing them together.
While I didn’t dislike this story and didn’t love it either it was a little blah to me I sort of had the impression been there done that and have the t shirt to show it in that it was a storyline done to death and there was nothing to make this special Sometimes there was a little to much detail and now feel like a could go out and tame and train a horse
Cody Jones hurt a lot of people but he has returned to his hometown determined to make amends and one of the first people he reconnects with is Willow Bodine the woman he has always loved The feeling is mutual but Willow blames herself for her fathers death and will do what her family wants even if that is to marry a man she doesn’t love Can these two star crossed lovers find a way to be together You will have to read to see
I really enjoyed this book. Once I started reading it I just could not put it down. This is the first book that I have read of Leigh Rikers and can’t wait to read more by her.
Willow used to date Cody but he ended up getting into trouble and spent time in prison. While he was away Willow started dating Thad and then they became engaged.
Don’t really want to give to much of the story away so I’ll leave it at this. Check out the book you won;t be disappointed.
4 1/2 STARS!
A heartwarming story of forgiveness, rediscovery and redemption. With book eight in her always addictive Kansas Cowboys series, Leigh Riker brings us a tainted hero and the one that got away in MISTLETOE COWBOY. The characters and plot drew me into the story quickly and their connection kept me enchanted throughout.
Cody comes into the story needing redemption for the bad he’s done, but I found it really easy to forgive him once we get to know the guy he is now and hear his back story.
Willow was also easy to like and sympathize with, but she was also irritating with the way she let herself be walked over instead of listening to her heart.
I highly recommend this book as well as the entire series to anyone who enjoys a sweet romance filled with a sexy cowboy, a gentle partner and a happily ever after to write home about.
“Mistletoe Cowboy” by Leigh Riker is a story about forbidden love, redemption, and second chances.
Willow Bodine is engaged to marry someone else when her former love returns home. Even though she still has feelings for Cody Jones, she has obligations to her family for what, she believes, is her role in her father’s death.
Cody is back in Barren to start fresh and find forgiveness from those he hurt in the past. He has plans to start a horse training program and, while he is still in love with Willow, knows he has to let her go.
But feelings of the heart are tough to ignore and Willow and Cody have to decide which path they are going to take.
“Mistletoe Cowboy” can be read as a standalone from the previous books in the Kansas Cowboys series, but there were times where I felt as if I walked in the middle of a character’s story and missed something important about them.
Also, with the forbidden love trope, there can be tendency to dislike one of the characters involved (in this case Willow), but Ms. Riker does a great job at writing this difficult trope and creates characters you hope will find their happily-ever-after.