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A True Cowboy Christmas was a fantastic read featuring a modern marriage of convenience that doesn’t go quite how our hero planned.

Gray Everett is devoted to the family land and is determined to ensure the family’s legacy continues. With his two brothers pushing Gray to sell the land now that their father has died, Gray must work harder than ever to keep the land he’s worked his entire life while still managing to give his daughter a good life. Enter Abby Douglas, Gray’s longtime neighbor and the perfect answer to all his problems. When Gray proposes a marriage of convenience, Abby is sure he’s lost his mind but she finds she can’t refuse.

Gray’s entire life is wrapped up in the ranch and taking care of his daughter Becca. He can’t fathom a life outside of the ranch and will do anything to keep his life the way it is. After his first marriage ended in disaster with a wife who regularly cheated on him and died while driving to see her current lover, Gray is sure love isn’t for him.

Abby was raised by her grandparents as her mother Lily was unreliable and would flit in and out of town at her leisure. Lily berated Abby her entire life and Abby has a number of abandonment and self-image issues as a result. Abby has never had a serious relationship in part because of her self worth issues and in part because she’s loved Gray since she was in second grade.

Gray and Abby’s relationship definitely doesn’t proceed the way most relationships do these days, but I think it ultimately worked well for them. Gray’s proposal of a marriage of convenience shocks Abby at first as the two hardly know each other and Gray botches it a bit when he inadvertently insults her. But once the marriage does proceed, Gray and Abby easily settle into a routine. There are definitely a few bumps in the road though when Gray realizes Abby is her own person and isn’t go to listen to his every word. The grand gesture at the end of the book by Gray is incredibly sweet and provides the perfect setting to set things right between him and Abby.

Throughout the book we see quite a bit of Gray’s brothers Brady and Ty as well as his daughter Becca. Gray’s relationship with his brothers is tenuous at best and the three are always at each other’s throats, though they do make some progress by the end of the book. Abby’s grandmother and later her mother appear quite frequently and Abby has very different relationships with each of them. Abby and her grandmother are incredibly close whereas her relationship with her mother is much more strained. Abby’s two best friends Hope and Rae make numerous appearances and I really enjoyed the three’s friendship.

A True Cowboy Christmas was a super enjoyable read and I’m looking forward to future books in the series. I highly recommend this book if you’re in the mood for a Christmas romance.


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A True Cowboy Christmas Cold River Ranch Caitlin Crews 9781250295231 Books Reviews

A True Cowboy Christmas by Caitlin Crews is the first book in the contemporary romance Cold River Ranch series. The story is told by switching the point of view between the two lead characters in the book and takes place at the holiday season.

Gray Everett has just buried his angry and abusive father and isn’t mourning him in the least but for Gray all he wants is to not turn into him. Gray’s father had left the family ranch to him and his brothers but Gray had always been the one interested in running it so to fight off his brothers push to sell Gray comes up with a plan to find a wife.

Abby Douglas grew up next to the Everett ranch and has had a secret crush on Gray her entire life but he’d never looked twice at her being eight years older. What Abby never expected was to open her door one day and find Gray on the doorstep and proposing marriage. The ever practical Gray came up with the plan that Abby was the “salt of the earth” bride he needed in his life becoming the mother to his daughter and combining their land.

Starting off reading A True Cowboy Christmas I thought I was going to end up falling in love with this story. What kind of crazy cowboy proposes out of the blue? And Abby was absolutely hilarious in her reaction so while Gray came off cold and calculating I could see them balancing out in my mind. Well, as much as that is true the thing is the story was filled with angst which got to be way too much for my taste and Gray really didn’t become likable until the end. Add in the fact there wasn’t much Christmas in the story which would be the main reason I’m attracted to these at this time of year I was a bit let down. So the one thing that kept me from actually disliking this was Abby and for that I will say it was an OK read overall.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.
I'll begin by saying that I usually don't enjoy contemporary novels that much. I find them slow-paced and uninteresting enough to hold my interest. This book grabbed me from page one and did not let go. Was it slow at times? yes. But the deep character development and inner turmoil of both made me love it. I like that both characters were flawed (as every human being on earth is) I love the warm, sexy kind of love-making the author wrote. There was none of that man-whore, raunchy talk, that so many find sexy and I find just gross. It delved deeply into there psyches and really made you feel the evolution of their Love story. I will go on to read more by this author.
**SPOILERS** Caitlin Crews is a fabulous writer and this book showcases just how well she uses emotion to bring her characters to life. Her description of setting is amazing...I could feel the isolation of the ranch, the magnificence of the surrounding mountains, and the cold onset of winter in Cold River. But this book was very dark, and the brooding, bitter hero was someone I never warmed up to. He was mean to everyone, and the way he treated his brothers was hard to read. He was terrified of becoming just like his old man, but couldn't seem to stop his own surly nature. The only person he was consistently kind to was his daughter, and that's where his true nature really shined through. Abby agreed to marry him because...why not? She'd been crazy about him her entire life and figured it might as well be her than some other woman. And no matter how unreasonable he was, she continued to be sweet and understanding and forgiving. The whole story wrapped up in literally the last 10 pages of the book, where he had this sudden epiphany that he had to finally let his father--and all his ugliness--go, so that he could finally love Abby and celebrate Christmas. But it was too little, too late for this reader.
A True Cowboy Christmas was a fantastic read featuring a modern marriage of convenience that doesn’t go quite how our hero planned.

Gray Everett is devoted to the family land and is determined to ensure the family’s legacy continues. With his two brothers pushing Gray to sell the land now that their father has died, Gray must work harder than ever to keep the land he’s worked his entire life while still managing to give his daughter a good life. Enter Abby Douglas, Gray’s longtime neighbor and the perfect answer to all his problems. When Gray proposes a marriage of convenience, Abby is sure he’s lost his mind but she finds she can’t refuse.

Gray’s entire life is wrapped up in the ranch and taking care of his daughter Becca. He can’t fathom a life outside of the ranch and will do anything to keep his life the way it is. After his first marriage ended in disaster with a wife who regularly cheated on him and died while driving to see her current lover, Gray is sure love isn’t for him.

Abby was raised by her grandparents as her mother Lily was unreliable and would flit in and out of town at her leisure. Lily berated Abby her entire life and Abby has a number of abandonment and self-image issues as a result. Abby has never had a serious relationship in part because of her self worth issues and in part because she’s loved Gray since she was in second grade.

Gray and Abby’s relationship definitely doesn’t proceed the way most relationships do these days, but I think it ultimately worked well for them. Gray’s proposal of a marriage of convenience shocks Abby at first as the two hardly know each other and Gray botches it a bit when he inadvertently insults her. But once the marriage does proceed, Gray and Abby easily settle into a routine. There are definitely a few bumps in the road though when Gray realizes Abby is her own person and isn’t go to listen to his every word. The grand gesture at the end of the book by Gray is incredibly sweet and provides the perfect setting to set things right between him and Abby.

Throughout the book we see quite a bit of Gray’s brothers Brady and Ty as well as his daughter Becca. Gray’s relationship with his brothers is tenuous at best and the three are always at each other’s throats, though they do make some progress by the end of the book. Abby’s grandmother and later her mother appear quite frequently and Abby has very different relationships with each of them. Abby and her grandmother are incredibly close whereas her relationship with her mother is much more strained. Abby’s two best friends Hope and Rae make numerous appearances and I really enjoyed the three’s friendship.

A True Cowboy Christmas was a super enjoyable read and I’m looking forward to future books in the series. I highly recommend this book if you’re in the mood for a Christmas romance.