She’s a widow with a young son and a failing ranch. He’s a ranch hand with a dream and a deep love for one woman. The only thing missing is a simple solution.
Brady Blackwolf is doing his best to be a top hand at Whistle Rock Ranch. A fast learner and hard worker, he enjoys every aspect of ranching. His days are long and becoming longer. A commitment to a dying friend keeps his off hours busy helping the widow at Kicking Horse Ranch. She sees them as good friends, which forces him to hide his growing feelings for her and her young son.
Amanda Swanson wakes up each morning to the babbling of her young son and the reality of her failing ranch. If Mark hadn’t died…but he had, leaving her to achieve their dream alone. She works sixteen hours a day while taking care of her young boy. Still, she is thankful. If Brady didn’t help several days a week, the ranch would’ve been lost long ago. Their friendship, and her son, Marcus, are the bright spots in her life.
Knowing she must make a major change to turn the ranch around, she takes a gamble by partnering with another ranch. Breeding Morgans will either make or break Kicking Horse Ranch. To find success, she must take on a full-time ranch hand.
Brady volunteers. Working side by side, the lines between friendship and something more begin to blur.
Navigating the world of horse breeding, meddling parents, a brush with the law, and an obnoxious neighbor with his sights on Amanda, the two attempt to claw their way to success.
Will the obstacles prove to be more than the couple can overcome, or will they find strength in each other, allowing them an unexpected chance at a future together?
The Cowboy’s Simple Solution, book eight in the Cowboys of Whistle Rock Ranch Contemporary Western Romance series, is a clean and wholesome, full-length novel with an HEA and no cliffhanger.
Mary Jane McLeod –
Another great book by one of my favorite authors. I’m so enjoying this series and a the characters of Brilliance. I really enjoyed Amanda and Brady’s story. While helping out his friends widow and spending time together working her ranch these two grow close. It all makes for an interesting read that I read straight through. A really great read.
Bonnie Peters –
This is a wonderful book about reaching for your dreams even when the world is falling apart around you. Amanda is reaching for her dream to make her ranch a success but can’t seem to get ahead for long. Brady has been there to help her and watch his best friend’s son grow into a toddler. This is their story of fighting for love when even your family has other plans for your life. A wonderful book full of hope, love and friendship while reaching for your dreams. A must read!
Catherine Shea –
Amanda a widowed single mom trying to make the dream of raising Marcus on the ranch a reality. Brady is trying to fulfill his best friends wishes to help Amanda reaching the goal of a successful ranch. Brady and Amanda grow closer even though they don’t know what to do about it. There is action, family interference from both Brady and Amanda. They stick together and form a partnership with Whiskey Rock Ranch and the Bonners. It’s a sweet romance I enjoyed the read.
Gail Kovach –
“The Cowboy’s Simple Solution” is a heartwarming tale of 2 caring friends who eventually become more. Amanda is a widow. Her infant son Marcus was born shortly after her husband’s death. Establishing a ranch was Amanda’s & her husband’s dream, and she is now struggling to keep the flicker of that dream from becoming extinguished. She’s also concerned that, now that she’s the sole parent for her son, if anything happened to her, what would become of Marcus and the ranch?
Brady was a good friend of Amanda’s husband Mark. Since Mark’s death, he’s stepped in to help Amanda with the chores at her ranch whenever he had time off from the next-door Whistle Rock Ranch. Brady is hardworking and a fast learner as well as a great and loyal friend to Amanda and Marcus. As if Amanda didn’t have enough struggles, her parents want her to move back to Vermont. They feel that the ranch is no place for either her or little Marcus, but Amanda stubbornly refuses to give in, even when despair and failure is on the horizon. All her life her parents have tried to mold her into their idea of a proper young woman, and she refuses to give in to them.
Brady gets an idea of how the lucrative Whistle Rock Ranch can help Amanda’s ranch, and he’s been given the opportunity of helping Amanda make her dream come true. Can Amanda’s ranch survive? Will her parents win the push and pull of convincing Amanda to move back home?
I enjoyed this sweet, clean cowboy romance. It was a tale of hard work, patience, and honesty paying off.
I received a complimentary ARC of this book and have voluntarily given my honest opinion in this review.
Joyce Fritz –
Working on the Whistle Rock Ranch, Brady Blackwolf is also helping out at the Kicking Horse Ranch as much as possible. Brady had made the commitment to take care of Amanda and her son Marcus for his dying friend Mark. As he is fulfilling this commitment, he also realizes he cares for the two of them. A great sweet clean story of the struggles Amanda has to endure to include parents that want to control her life but also a ranch that wants her to succeed. The people in town also show their support when needed. I fell in love with this heartwarming story.
Margie Harris –
I’m going to start by saying I loved this book. Single moms have a special place in my heart. We have a history of single moms in my family, my daughter and mother were widows, and I was divorced with her dad not in the picture. I can understand the struggles that Amanda faced even if I don’t have a history on a ranch. Brady is one of the good guys plus I’m a native Texan, I have a weakness for cowboys. The author gives us romance, problems, problem solving, good neighbors, humor and a sense of family, both good and not so good. I look forward to the next book in this series.
Rita Meston –
Brady, a ranch hand at nearby Whistle Rock ranch and friend of Amanda and her late husband, lends a hand when he can as he did when her husband was alive. However, in order to make a success of her ranch Amanda agrees to a horse breeding partnership with Whistle Rock. Part of the deal is that Brady works for her as a ranch hand. Their bond soon becomes more than friendship. When her parents and former in-laws try to force her into selling the ranch, Brady can only think of one solution.