Yet another fantastic book by Lorelei James! I really loved this book. Not 'liked' but loved!

Small summery:

Bran Turner needs a hired hand to help him through calving season as his regular guy has been in an accident and broken his hip. However, no one has responded to his advertisements and he on his own. Harper Masterson has been fired from her part-time job in a tanning salon and desperately needs money so that her little sister can go to college. There are no other job opportunitie...

Yet another fantastic book by Lorelei James! I really loved this book. Not 'liked' but loved!

Small summery:

Bran Turner needs a hired hand to help him through calving season as his regular guy has been in an accident and broken his hip. However, no one has responded to his advertisements and he on his own. Harper Masterson has been fired from her part-time job in a tanning salon and desperately needs money so that her little sister can go to college. There are no other job opportunities for her since most people are determined to make her pay for her mother's mistakes. Through a mutual friend Harper gets hired to help Bran through calving season, the end of which coincides with her sister graduating high school after which they can leave the small town for good. Bran has many preconceived notions about what he thinks Harper is like and will act, however, as time passes he finds out that there is much more to her than being a former Miss Sweet Grass. As they develop a time-limited relationship they explore sides of each other and themselves that they have never exposed to others.

I am normally drawn more to fictional characters that are not perfect so I was admittedly a tiny bit apprehensive about a female lead that was a former beauty queen. However, LJ is my favorite author so naturally that did not deter me and, boy, am I glad it didn't. Harper might have been a former beauty queen but she is far from perfect. She is, however, funny, sweet, caring, unselfish and in many ways insecure but most importantly she is likable. She is not the stereotypical female lead character who is so sweet and perfect it makes you grind your teeth. As always Lorelei James has managed to make the characters in her story unique and real; you get the sense that if you go to Wyoming you could run into these people you've read about. Bran Turner is likewise far from being the stereotypical romance hero. Like Harper he is "real". I especially liked that while he is naturally a handsome sexy cowboy he is not used to women falling all over him, which means that he is not completely confident when it comes to women who look like Harper. The small insecurities that both characters have makes their story so much more believable than other romance/erotic books.

The other characters in the book that make up the family and friends of Harper and Bran "get to you" like the main characters do and I found myself wishing that the book was longer so I could also read more about them - lucky for me it is a series so I hopefully they will all get their own stories. The book is the second in the Blacktop Cowboys series so if you have read 'Corralled', which was the first book, you will be reunited with some of the same characters again. There is no problem reading Saddled and Spurred before Corralled, though! So don't let that deter you.

This book has everything that I have come to expect from a Lorelei James book: great characters, great storyline, hot hot hot sex, difference from all the other books she has written while still retaining all the magic and of course sexy cowboys :o)

I can't recommend this book enough, so read it. You owe it to yourself!