Step One: Unlock her frozen heart.Linda Goodnight is a RITA award-winning, New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of more than 3 million books sold.She can’t risk her heart again.Mesa Brazos had her chance at happily-ever-after and she lost everything. After her marriage imploded, the trick-riding cowgirl had a crisis of faith that sent her home to Refuge, Texas. Now she’s holed … faith that sent her home to Refuge, Texas. Now she’s holed up on the ranch she and her sisters inherited, training horses. She’s not interested in falling in love again. It’s too painful.
He has a deep need to protect.
Undersheriff Evan Young is a single dad and his daughter—a heart transplant recipient—is everything to him. So what if he’s a little overprotective? After losing his wife, he couldn’t bear it if anything happened to his little girl Ava.
When Evan’s protectiveness stifles Ava, it’s Mesa who brings back the spark of joy to his little girl’s life. But will the secret of Ava’s transplant break Mesa’s heart all over again?
Read all the books in the Calypso County, Texas series:
Twins for the Cowboy
A Baby for the Cowboy
A Bride for the Cowboy
Christmas for the Cowboy
Dallas and the Cowboy
Ten Rules for Marrying a Cowboy
Three Ways to Catch a Cowgirl
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This is the first book of Linda Goodnight that I’ve read & thoroughly enjoyed. This was a clean faith based romance of two people, Mesa Brazos and Evan Young, with his daughter Ava. Masa & Evan had their hearts broken, Mesa’s divorce & drowning of son Jeremy, Evan’s wife dying from cancer & Ava’s need for a heart transplant. The story takes you through the reconnection of their lives from their childhood crush to the trials they went through finding true Godly love & trust. Great characters, writing & supporting characters. Had a hard time putting it down & ended in a HEA-bring tissues.
Will be reading more of Linda Goodnight’s work.
Mesa and Evan are two childhood friends that both suffered losses. They connected when Mesa came back to her hometown to be with her sisters on their ranch. Mesa is now divorced from a cheating husband and lost her young son. Evan lost his wife in childbirth leaving him with his daughter that had a weak heart. She later got a heart transplant and Mesa’s son happen to be an organ donor. This connection along with their childhood friendship brought them closer and also helped with healing from their losses. There is so many emotions in this story, you will be crying and smiling. Even though there was sadness, it was also positive and uplifting. I received a free copy and this is my honest review.
Three Ways to Catch a Cowgirl by Linda Goodnight
Calypso County, Texas Series Book Seven
Mesa Brazos and her sisters Arizona and Lark had been raised by their grandmother who taught them how to ride horses and perform on them. Mesa was back on the Flying Sisters Ranch and training to rejoin her sisters in performing. After two years of depression from her losses in life, it was time to start living again. Easier said than done.
Evan Young is an undersheriff in Calypso County. He’d left Dallas to be closer to his parents, back to where he grew up. Less money, but more peace. His daughter, Ava, is his priority. After a heart transplant saved her life, he made sure nothing could harm her…everything except his overprotectiveness.
Evan and Mesa had been close friends and neighbors growing up and their friendship as adults comes easily. Each can see where the other person is stuck and needs to see more clearly, but change doesn’t come easily. Wonderful characters and story.
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4 stars
I purchased a copy of the novel Three Ways to Catch a Cowgirl: Hometown Heroes (Calypso County, Texas Book 7) by Linda Goodnight and this review was given freely.
Vivid descriptions of the quaint small town of Refuge and its colorful residents and a series of robberies add interest to this poignant and ironic second chance at love Valentine’s Day story featuring a grieving mother who questions her Faith and her choices. contains a strong advocacy for organ donation. Two years after her son Jeremy’s drowning and death followed by her unexpected divorce, Mesa Brazos’ sisters force her back to their Refuge,Texas ranch and into the family trick riding business where she is reunited with her childhood best friend and neighbor, the widowed overprotective single father Undersheriff Evan Young and his heart transplant survivor six year old daughter AVA.
Cowgirl Mesa was having difficulty climbing out of her depression when her husband cheated on her and their marriage ended and then her young son died in a freak accident. Her ex-husband blamed her and she blamed herself. Mesa returned to the home she grew up in where her sisters lived. There in her hometown she ran into Evan, a lawman who had been her childhood best friend. Evan was now a single dad since his wife had died in childbirth leaving him with a precious daughter that he protected (make that overprotected) in every way possible. Both had walked through the valley of the shadow of death and felt its sting. If you’ve ever faced a painful loss in our fallen world and asked “Why, God? Why?” then this book may offer some comfort and hope to you. In spite of the serious subject, the book was uplifting and positive. I highly recommend it! I received an ARC and this is my honest and voluntary review.
Oh this book was SO good! It was an emotional rollercoaster for me! Two childhood friends who had had more tremendous losses than most of us will ever have nor can only begin to understand! Mesa and Evan reconnect when Mesa comes back to her hometown during a period of deep grief so she can be with her sisters again on their ranch and she can try to put her life back together, although it will never be the same. Evan lives at the neighboring ranch where he was when they were children and that’s a comfort to Mesa but now he’s got a daughter and is a widower. Together their friendship can pull them both through their grief and loneliness. However, Mesa finds out Evan’s daughter is a heart transplant recipient and that changes things at first. You’ll have to read the story to see what happens after that but there is so many emotions in this story. I was either crying or smiling or just feeling all was right with the world! I loved how Evan took the time to help out some juvenile delinquents too! And, Mesa’s sisters are great! There’s so much heart in this book, you need to read it!
Mesa and Evan have both suffered loss but each are handling it in different ways. I so appreciated how the Lord was such a part of this story. He was such an encouragement to Mesa and a loving if not a tad over protective father. Loved how Mesa and Evan’s daughter bonded so quickly. This book also handled organ donation and receiving in a most gracious way. I learned a lot about both. My heart really hurt for Mesa more than once. While there was angst it was IMO handled well and quickly. Gotta love the sister.