He’s a down-home rancherAxel Hansen is Prairie’s fickle Casanova. He wasn’t always that way. Nine years ago, he wanted nothing more than to settle down on the family ranch with his college sweetheart. But his adrenaline junky girlfriend, Haley, had other plans, and chose her profession over love. She’s the thrill seeker who broke his heartMeteorologist Haley Cooper (Coop) has had her heart broken … broken exactly once, and has organized her life to ensure it never happens again. When she suddenly has to leave her job in Oklahoma City, Haley takes a two-month assignment with NOAA as a storm chaser, only to discover she’ll be boarding at the last place on earth she thought she’d see again.Will lightning strike twice for love?When his father helps out a friend at NOAA, Axel is forced to host Haley at the family ranch, and long buried embers flame back to life. As devastating tornadoes rip through the area, Axel and Haley will have to confront their feelings for each other and decide if their love can weather any storm.
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Can Axel and Haley’s love stand the test of distance?
Axel and Haley’s post-college romance ended when she ran off, knowing she’d never fit in with his ranch lifestyle. Ten years later, she’s assigned to collect weather data on and around his ranch, and their chemistry is still all-consuming. But as much as they love each other and can’t consider a life apart, there’s no way he can leave the ranch, nor can she leave her career.
As the fourth story in the Flint Hills, we get another visit with the Hansen and Sinclaire families, which is reason enough to read this book and all the rest in this series. This fictional Kansas environment is beautifully developed, making the reader feel just as much a part of the family as the characters themselves.
This one focuses on Axe’s struggle to bring the family ranch into the 21st century, despite his dad’s “what’s always worked will always work” mentality, and gives us a full-on meteorological course as we follow Haley along on her scientific pursuits. When a tornado heads straight toward the town and ranches, everyone’s faith and loyalty is put to the ultimate test.
This book was completely enthralling, captivating me right from the first line and had me staying up way past my bedtime to finish it. The characters are authentic, the passion is scorching hot, and the humor lightens the heaviness of the emotional depth of the story. It’s a wonderful book, and a terrific addition to the series. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.
I give this book 5 stars. I loved the plot with the tornados, and the farm. Haley and Axel were college sweethearts when she left to pursue her dreams. They have been thrown together by circumstance with they stay together by choice? Great book, couldn’t put it down! Highly Reccommend!
I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving a free copy.
I think this may be my favorite of this series so far. Not only because of the emotional rollercoaster it puts us on, but also because of the characters involved.
Axel is a troublemaker, which we’ve seen in interactions with his sister Hope. Really all this is a cover-up, he’s been hurt and doesn’t want to be hurt again.
Haley never intended to return to the Flint Hills, unfortunately her boss has put her on a head on collision with her past. As a meteorologist at CPARC – Climate Prediction and Research Center she’s been tasked with recording severe weather activity around Prairie, Kansas. Having to drive herself she has been assured locating one would not be an issue.
I’m not sure who was more surprised Haley or Axel when she shows up at Hanson Stables where she will be living for the next two months while collecting tornado data.
Now Axel is determined not to fall under her spell again, that is until they meet up at the Trading Post after she’s settled in at the Ranch.
Chasing the weather is quite the adrenaline high, and a Tornado touchdown later, Axel is reprimanding her about safety.
These two have enough emotions swirling around it’s like their own personal tornado.
But it’s the one that hits Prairie proper that causes a whole new level of everything, pretty much for everybody.
Love, laughter, and plenty of tears in this book.
Oh my…this isn’t just a love story between Axel and Haley. It is a love story about father to son, brother to brother and a community to their town. There is so much emotion in this book that you don’t see coming and it takes your breath away.
Axel surprises me in that he seems one dimensional in the other books, the prankster, the devil may care attitude and all round good time guy but, he really is so much more. His struggles, his feelings and his pride of family really take on most of his personality to make up an amazing man.
Haley does not endear herself to me early on in the book. She seems selfish and insensative. It is not until you really get into her past that things make sense. I’m sure this just what Axel feels since he and Haley never talked too much about her childhood, her dreams and her desires when they were together ten years ago.
This is an amazing story that touches your heart on so many levels that it stays with you long after you finish reading. It feels like the good people of Prairie are part of your family and what happens to them affects you too.
Wonderful story of second chances and happily ever after. Must read.
This book is everything I adore in angsty emotional reads: two characters that want to be together, belong together, but just don’t know how to make it work. As college sweethearts, Axel and Haley were so desperately besotted with each other, in the way only young lovers can be. They just had wildly different goals for their futures – only Axel didn’t realize it. When Fate and Mother Nature bring the pair back together during storm season, it’s a chance encounter neither one was prepared for. It didn’t take long before I was fully invested in seeing how Axel and Haley were going to make a second chance work. In fact, I was so thoroughly engrossed in finding out how they’d do it that the deadly tornado that blows through the middle of this story (and Prairie) caught me totally unawares. And left me an ugly-crying mess in its wake. This might just be my favorite book in the series so far.
This is one hot novel, and emotionally charged, along with a natural disaster. Axel is given a second chance when Haley Cooper comes sailing in from CPARC on her TREX; a car designed to chase tornadoes. This is one couple that is meant to be together, only they don’t know what compromise is all about.
This was a great read! The writing flowed well, and there were SO many emotions for me with this one. I laughed out loud, and had to stop reading to cry for a few minutes. I strongly disliked Haley at the start. I don’t think leaving someone in the dead of night without explanation is something that someone should just forgive. It was also one of those “I’ll make the decision for someone else” deals. I hate those! Haley started to grow on me as the story went on. I loved Axel. He was a good man trying to help his family, and make his own way. Once things change between them, I did feel like Haley was unwilling to bend at all to be with Axel. They get their HEA, but it was hard fought. Now let me just say that I haven’t had a book make me bawl my eyes out for quite a while. I usually avoid them 🙂 I had no idea what was coming, and I had to stop reading a couple of times to get a hold of myself. EXCELLENT writing! I can’t recommend this one enough!
I received a copy of this book from Hidden Gems and I chose to review it. Tessa Layne did a fantastic job with this book. I look forward to reading the other books in this series. This book is well written and worth your time. I encourage everyone to get this book. This is a second chance at love story. Give this one a chance!!!!!
What an emotional book. The author sucked me in right at the beginning and didn’t let up until the end.
Axel and Haley “Coop” were college sweethearts who both made decisions that they both regret and have carried that regret for 10 years. They find themselves working together again 10 years later and are forced to have to deal with past issues. Love is still there for both but buried deep. She is a thrill seeker and he is a homebody and on paper these two shouldn’t work. However, when they are together their chemistry is explosive.
A storm rips through Prairie and it tugged at my heartstrings. I have loved these characters and as I was reading this, my heart broke for them. I kept telling myself that this is a fictitious town but I still felt heartbroken. However, from the ashes the town rallies and I couldn’t help cheering them on.
ARC for honest review with no compensation, is another well written, awesome book by Tessa Layne.
Prairie Storm is the 4th book in the Cowboys of Flint Hills and it’s about Axel Hansen and Haley “Coop” Cooper who dated and fell in love in college but “Coop” for reasons that show up later in the book left Axel in the dust. Now 10 years later she shows up back at the family ranch but is determined to do her job and leave…..
Axel lost the love of his life “Coop” at 22 and now she shows back up at his family ranch to work on tracking the weather and tornadoes in and around the town of Prairie. He thinks he is over his feelings for her but…seeing her again brings them all back with a vengeance! !
Haley “Coop” as Axel called all those years ago, thinks she has contained her feelings from back then and figured he has moved on with his life and has the family he always wanted so she feels safe about going to Prairie and gathering data for tracking tornadoes and helping to warn people and towns when a tornado pops up…but when she comes face to face with him….it’s not what she thought and…all bets are off….
Can these two figure out their feelings for each other, can they fix what tore them apart before or will they finally be left with the aftermath of what’s left after a tornado???
Full of angst, sexy banter, closed off feelings, secrets, tears (and mine too), close calls with tornadoes, family getting in the way and finding that love might be able to endure time and distance…can these two find their HEA???
Can’t wait for the next book in this series….
Haley and Axel were college sweethearts who were inseparable. They grew up in the same small town, but had very different upbringings. Axel’s family owned a prosperous ranch, while Haley lived with her foster mother Mama June. Upon graduating from college, Axel hoped that Haley would make a life with him on the ranch. She had other ideas. Haley felt that she was never worthy of anyone’s love, so she left town without saying goodbye. She believed that Axel deserved a woman who could love him unconditionally and be his soulmate.
Axel has spent the last 10 years working on the ranch with his father and his brother Gunnar. He feels that his father has never taken any of his ideas about improving the ranch seriously and he is running out of patience. Haley worked as the chief meteorologist for a TV station before beginning to research climate control so she could educate people about tornado safety. This job brought her back home to Prairie (is Prairie the name of the town?) and Axel. Her boss offered her the possibility of a promotion if she took this assignment. She agreed to go but she was afraid to face Axel and the feelings she still had for him. The minute Axel saw Haley at the ranch, he realized that he desperately wanted her in his life again. The powerful attraction had never really gone away.
Will Haley put her job before Axel again, or will she finally realize that she deserves to be loved? Can Axel convince Haley that the love between them is forever and that he can’t live without her?
Tessa brings us another romantic and passionate story in her Cowboys of Flint Hills series. I look forward to the next installment in the series, “Prairie Fire.”
Prairie Storm: Cowboys of the Flint Hills by Tessa Layne
This is Axel Hansen and Haley Cooper’s story.
Axel and Haley were college sweethearts but Haley broke his heart. Circumstances have Haley and Axel spending time together working on Haley’s weather research. Will Axel and Haley get a second chance at love? There are so many ups and downs that these two go through. At moments you will cry or laugh.
I love this series. A steamy, emotional, and heartwarming story with lots of twists. Also, you learn a lot about meteorology. FYI, contains mature content. I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.