Christmastime in Gold Valley, Oregon, means hot chocolate, snowy nights and one very sexy cowboy holiday surprise… There’s only one thing Chloe Nolan wants for Christmas this year–and he wears a cowboy hat and is completely off-limits. When her mom married into the Reid family, Chloe found her calling, working with horses on the ranch. How could she risk that newfound stability by revealing … revealing her crush on her stepbrother, Tanner? But when Chloe and Tanner get snowed in on their way to a family gathering, it’s just the chance to extinguish the flame that’s been burning for too long. One night. One wish. One bed…
She’s the woman Tanner’s always wanted–and vowed he’d never touch. Yet when Chloe reveals her secret wish, all those years of pent-up longing erupt with life-changing force. Now it’s Tanner’s turn to take a risk, and turn one magical Christmas night into the beginning of forever…
Read the entire Gold Valley series:
1. Smooth-Talking Cowboy
2. Untamed Cowboy
3. Good Time Cowboy
4. A Tall, Dark Cowboy Christmas
5. Unbroken Cowboy
6. Cowboy to the Core
7. Lone Wolf Cowboy
8. Cowboy Christmas Redemption
9. The Bad Boy of Redemption Ranch
10. The Hero of Hope Springs
11. The Last Christmas Cowboy
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Snowed in with the Cowboy is a short novella in the Gold Valley series by Maisey Yates.
A winter storm, Christmas, and one hot sexy cowboy.
The Gist: Chloe and Tanner are step-siblings who have secretly been hung up on each other for forever. They don’t want to mess up the family. What would the siblings and her mom think?
Chloe and Tanner where nice. They have this teasing thing going on and some awkward moments since they’ve known each other so long and that they both like each other. They’ve been their for each other and supportive throughout the years, so you see that they care and love.
As for them shaken up, well I get why neither wants to rock the boat. It’s a bit forbidden in away with them being siblings, but they aren’t biologically related.
For me the novellas in the Gold Valley series are nice, but they are missing something for me. They are really quick and things move fast. I feel they need more depth and time to draw out the characters to make them more real and have me connect.
Narration: This was a bonus novella in A Tall, Dark Cowboy Christmas narrated by Suzanne Elise Freeman. She did a good job with the novella. I liked the voices for the characters.
Overall, Snowed in with the Cowboy was a nice listen.
Rated: 3 Stars
Absolutely LOVED this novella. Best Christmas romance that I’ve read so far this holiday season.
Short and steamy story. Years ago, Chloe’s mom married Tanner’s father, giving Chloe three new brothers. The problem is, the oldest brother, Tanner, never felt like a brother to her. She’s always had feelings for him, and they’ve gotten stronger the older she is. She has a great job working with the ranch horses and terrific relationships with Calder and Jackson and their wives. She doesn’t want to risk those relationships by revealing her feelings for Tanner.
Tanner is caught between a rock and a hard place. The family is gathering at a cabin in the mountains, and he and Chloe are the only ones who haven’t left yet. Bad weather has made it inadvisable for Chloe to drive her car, which means riding with him. Tanner is not looking forward to being cooped up in his truck with the woman who has driven him crazy since she turned eighteen. Lusting after his stepsister is all kinds of wrong…
I liked the relationship between Chloe and Tanner. They know each other well and have had a good influence on each other. Tanner taught Chloe everything she knows about horses and gave her the confidence to work with them. Chloe’s arrival at the ranch and her wide-eyed wonder and appreciation for it opened Tanner’s eyes to everything he took for granted about it. This made him appreciate it more. Neither has let on to the other about their “inappropriate” feelings, unwilling to rock the family boat.
Then Chloe and Tanner get trapped by bad weather on their way to the family get-together. They get the last room at the hotel – a room with only one bed. Chloe can’t take it anymore and confesses to Tanner about how badly she wants him. Tanner is stunned, but there’s no way that he can resist her. Both agree that it’s just one night because neither wants to deal with family reaction. The problem is that once just isn’t enough. Tanner realizes that Chloe is it for him and is willing to take a chance. But Chloe is afraid to trust that Tanner’s feelings will last. I loved Tanner’s determination and laughed when he sought advice from his younger brothers. His big moment at the end was sweet and romantic, as he systematically countered all of her fears. I also loved the epilogue – especially Chloe’s Christmas present for Tanner.
3.5 stars
I’m enjoying the smaller stories this author has been adding to this series as it goes along. Sometimes I have issues with the .5 books, especially when an author uses it to give us more info on an already beloved couple and somehow ruins the things I loved about that couple. But Maisey Yates has been using the .5 part of this series to tell us new stories of a family that’s not involved with the winery and dude ranch that take up the bulk of the full number books in this series. It’s really been a lot of fun to get these short stories to give me my Gold Valley fix between the other books.
Since I have been reading all of these short stories, it was no surprise to me that Chloe and Tanner would get a story and a HEA. It didn’t play out the way I would have expected. Although I knew Chloe didn’t usually have an issue speaking her mind, the way she speaks up for herself with Tanner in this one shocked me. The girl has guts!
Of course, I also thought the big road block for this couple would be their relationship as step-siblings. While that is used as an excuse by both Tanner and Chloe in this story, that is not what the overall obstruction ends up being.
Now that all the Reid siblings have had their stories told, I wonder if we’ll continue to get these little novellas about other residents in the area. I sure hope so.
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