Who’s the hunter and who’s the prey?Activist Emily Sullivan left her fulfilling job in the Peace Corps to save her family’s ranch from bankruptcy. Her dream is to use renewable energy because conservation and education are her passion. Unfortunately, her parents believe there’s a greater profit allowing hunting tours to cull the local wild species. Emily vows to change their mind.Donovan Link … mind.
Donovan Link doesn’t stay in one place or with one job too long. This cowboy turned hunter is determined that the hunting lodge he built on the Three Sisters ranch will give him a nice nest egg so he could retire to Alaska, where the game is plentiful and his incarcerated father can never find him.
When these two opposites clash, sparks fly. Donovan sees Emily as a sabotaging eco-warrior and she sees him as a soulless trophy hunter. But they need to work together to keep the Three Sisters ranch in the black and fighting with each other — and falling in love — complicates an already impossible situation.
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Emily is called home from her Peace Corps mission in Ethiopia when her father’s health is in peril. In order to cover some debts, her father has leased out some property to a man, Donovan who leads hunters on outings. They super collide when they meet as she is a vegetarian and he hunts wild life for a living. She is the youngest and nobody believes she can manage the ranch she grew up on. They are inundated with feral pigs and rumor has it, there is a rare white deer. What’s going to happen when feelings join the picture? Has some characters from last book but they are not really used to lead to an outcome.
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This is book two in the Three Sisters Ranch series. This book is a standalone story but having read book one myself, I found the beginning easier to navigate and sort out everything. Emily has returned to the Last Stand Ranch to help her sisters try to save the ranch and keep it in the family or to prepare it for sale. Emily is the youngest sister and she seems to have separated her life entirely from the ranch. She was working in Africa and has become a vegetarian. She is not treated very well by her family and one can sympathize with having to return to your family home and to face that again. Donovan Link has built a hunting lodge on some of the ranch’s land and is using it to make some money so that he can retire to Alaska. Donovan has not had an easy childhood but believes he has moved past that and is using what he has learned and experienced for good. Donovan and Emily do not agree on much of nothing but the attraction between these two is obvious and strong. When push comes to shove, Emily and Donovan will have to put aside all other thoughts and feelings and work together to achieve success. Can they do this? Can either of them compromise to move forward and save the ranch? What happens when the heart wants, what the heart wants and continues to draw these two together? This is another good story in the series that allows the reader to get to know Emily, her position and treatment in the family and her contribution to save her family home. Enjoy!
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Emily is an animal loving vegetarian and Donovan leads hunting parties for money. There were plenty of funny and crazy moments as Emily tries to thwart his activities while being unable to keep her hands off him. She thinks she can take over her father’s ranch, make money from wind turbines, and get rid of their beef cattle so they can stop killing animals, but she starts to realize how naive she is. Donovan is trying to escape his con artist father and his past while still making a living and doesn’t want to stay in one place long, but sexy exasperating Emily may change his mind.
The Cowboy’s Hunt is the second book in Jamie K. Schmidt’s Three Sister’s Ranch series and is a fantastic addition. I so loved Emily and Donovan’s story. Emily is out to prove she can take over running the ranch. Donovan has leased to hunt on Thre Sister’s Ranch. The exchange between Donavan and Emily was hilarious at times. This story is well written, with an intriguing storyline, funny, with lots of steamy romance. Great read and I’m looking forward to the third book in this series.
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An absolutely lovely story. Opposites attract in this fun and witty romance. Emily is a vegetarian and conservationist. She is stubborn and focused on getting things done her way. Donovan is a hunter filled with testosterone. The author tells a great story of their battle of wills to change each other opinions. They are both funny and fun and find that they are attracted to each other. You will enjoy the steamy scenes as well as all the mischief Emily seems to always find herself in. The rest of the family is just as interesting.
I enjoyed this opposites attract/enemies to lovers romance. I liked Donovan a lot. He seemed like a really good guy, that had worked hard to overcome the bad start he had gotten in life. I thought that Emily was just OK. I could understand her passion to protect animals and the environment. However, all too often I felt that she took things too far and crossed from passionate crusader into cray-cray zealotism. I did enjoy this couples chaemistry and banter.
“The Cowboy’s Hunt” (Three Sisters Ranch Book 2) by Jamie K. Schmidt is a great read. I loved Emily and Donovan’s story. This was the first time I’ve read this author’s work and I’m looking forward to reading more. This story has entertaining characters, romance, humor, family, and more. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of this series. Highly recommend to all fans of cowboys, romance, and series.
Fabulous opposites attract, hate/love romance!
Emily and Donovan couldn’t be more different. He’s a hunter with a shady family history and a lease to hunt feral hogs and wild game on Three Sisters Ranch. Emily’s a vegetarian eco-activist trying to prove herself useful on her family’s ranch while also wanting to steer them into more humane practices. These two start off getting in each other’s hair and on each other’s nerves, but it doesn’t take long for all that intense chemistry to explode into an unexpected romance.
As we saw in the first book, the ranch has fallen on hard times and it’s going to take some creative maneuvering to put the ranch back on a profitable path. Each of the sisters is bringing her own unique set of talents and interests to the table as the family sorts through what works and what doesn’t.
This captivating story includes a balanced approach to controversial topics and a deep respect for family, traditions, and the environment as the realistic situations force both Donovan and Emily to reevaluate their goals and priorities.
Finding their soul mates in the last place they’d ever look made for a sweet love story, one that I enjoyed so much I couldn’t put it down. It’s a terrific story that covers a lot of ground and gives us an innovative HEA. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.
A series of three sisters and how as adults come home to help save the family ranch. How they all deal with the problems that are presented to them. This one about Emily coming home and how she wants to improve the ranch to go forward. Then Donovan steps in and how he is helping. The stories are all standalone reads but to find out how each sister helps read the full series. A well written perfectly paced story pulling you in from the start.
There were many things I really liked about this book, and a few I didn’t.
First the things I really enjoyed.
Donovan was an amazing man. He had a really bad childhood but wasn’t gong to go down that route and because a better man. He still carries the scars around but he uses them for good not bad now. He also cares. He cares about Emily and her family. He doesn’t want to do anything to bring harm to those he cares about.
I loved the banter between Donovan and Emily. When they were getting along, it was really fun.
I loved that Donovan stood up for what he believed, even though it was completely different than Emily. He tried to have conversations about it and explain his side even though Emily didn’t want to hear about it.
A couple things that I didn’t care about.
The families treatment of Emily. Maybe it’s because I never grew up like she did but there were many times I couldn’t understand why she would even WANT to come back to the ranch. The way her father treated her was horrible and her sisters weren’t that much better. I understanding wanting to come home again, but at what cost?
Emily herself – I liked that Emily had a cause and felt passionate about certain things but on many occasions, it just felt like she pushed too much. It was either her way or the highway in many instances. She would go so far as to sabotage in order to prove her point and that just didn’t sit right with me. I also didn’t agree with the way her family treated her like a baby, but yet at times she would do things that were reckless and could have gotten someone hurt.
I liked this book and can’t wait for more in this series.
How to reconcile opposing views is the theme of The Cowboy’s Hunt. Donovan has a hunting lodge on the ranch where Emily lives. She is opposed to hunting and would prefer Donovan gone. But, his lodge is helping to support the in trouble ranch and he is working to combat their wild hog problem.
This is a cute book showing how opposition can lead to romance, even with tension.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
The Cowboy’s Hunt by Jamie K. Schmidt was a delightful, funny, sexy story about Emily Sullivan and Donovan Link. Fireworks explode between activist Emily who wants to save her family’s ranch by using wind turbines and conservation on the ranch and sexy Donovan Link who has leased property on the ranch to run a lodge for hunters. These two opposites go head to head and the sexual tension between these two is hot especially when Emily does everything she can to sabotage him, but she soons finds out that more she spends time with him they develop feelings for one another. When Donovan opens up to Emily about his past, she tells Donovan that his past does not define him as a person as he is a good man. Now someone is planning a con to take advantage of Emily, but Donovan sees right through this scam and knows someone that he is personally connected to is pulling the strings. Can Donovan stop this threat in time? Now danger strikes and Emily gets injured due to her interfering ways surrounding Donovans hunting party, can these two agree to disagree on how the ranch should operate? Will Donovan give up and walk away from the one woman he loves? Will Emily finally realize that she needs to be more flexable if she wants to save the ranch, but most of all she needs Donovan more. This is a must read and I highly recommend The Cowboy’s Hunt, you will fall in love with Emily and Donovan. Can’t wait for the next sister’s story! I voluntairly reviewed an advanced copy of this book.
Emily has returned to the Three Sister’s Ranch after being in the Peace Corps for several years. Her father told the sisters that they were losing the ranch, so they came back to help them save it. Emily is a vegetarian and doesn’t like to see animals killed. She is wanting to take over the ranch from her father and wants to put up wind turbines. Donovan leases some land on the ranch, builds a lodge, and takes hunters out hunting. Emily tries her best to get Donovan off their land but he keeps taking out the hunters. They start spending time together and can’t fight the chemistry they have between them. When an accident happens, Donovan decides to leave but will he be able to stay away? Great story. Sexy. Two people who couldn’t be more different but find a way to be on the same ranch. A girl who’s the baby and keeps getting treated like one. A man who just keeps running from his past until it catches up with him. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.