REBEL COWBOY is fundamentally about two people loosing their identities and finding new ones together. As said identities are hard wired into who Mel and Dan are as people, the destruction and reconstruction is a super hard process. They fight both it and each other before stumbling towards that happily ever after. And they find it, don't worry, but whoooo buddy does it take some stumbling.

REBEL COWBOY is about Mel and Dan. Dan is a NHL superstar caught up in drama that's largely irrelevant to the story, except it drives him to his grandparent's dilapidated ranch and off the ice. As he knows as much about ranch revitalization as I do (read: just north of zero), he does the intelligent thing and hires help.

That help comes in the form of Mel, who has her own ranch to run as her father and brother are of little help in doing so. She hates every minute she has to be away from her land, but the money working for Dan is just too good.

Mel, for the record, is not super into the idea of needing other people because when you need other people, they let you down. This has been proven over and over again in her life, so she treats Dan with heavy skepticism for the majority of their tale. It all comes across as stubbornness - on both their parts - but it's really pain management and self-protection. Reading how they each break through the other person's shell is lovely and the tale is great.

REBEL COWBOY is recommended for anyone who likes slow burn emotional stories with hot sex, anyone who likes tales of folks bringing new life to one another and anyone who gets a kick out of alpacas.

Book Summary

UNDER A BIG SKY
For hotshot NHL star Dan Sharpe, hockey isn't just his job-it's his everything. But when claims of cheating get him bounced from the ice, he finds himself feeling lost. Everyone thinks he's crazy for taking on his grandfather's ramshackle Montana ranch, but hey, he's Dan Sharpe: how hard can it be?

As it turns out? Plenty hard.

Mel Shaw has been fighting tooth and nail to keep her family from falling apart. The last thing she needs is a distraction, but taking a job as some city slicker's consultant may be her only chance to save the land she loves. But she never expected someone like Dan to come roaring into her life, and it doesn't take long for Mel to realize this hockey-star-turned-cowboy has the power to upend her carefully ordered world-and heart-for good.

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