Monday, December 26, 2022

ARC Review: 5 stars for Rancher After Midnight by Karen Booth

 


Can this tenacious beauty tame Royal, Texas’s savage beast? Find out in the latest Texas Cattleman's Club: Ranchers and Rivals novel from Karen Booth.

One New Year’s Eve kiss is all it takes…

To tame a handsome beast.

Thanks to a bogus inheritance, rancher Heath Thurston has a score to settle. Seducing his sexy land surveyor, Ruby Bennet, is not part of his revenge plan…nor is the snowstorm that leaves them stranded with nothing but a connection they can’t deny. As the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, will Heath’s icy heart finally melt, or will he remain a vengeful beast for good?

From Harlequin Desire:
A luxurious world of bold encounters and sizzling chemistry.


You’ll be swept away by this bold, sizzling romance, part of the Texas Cattleman's Club: Ranchers and Rivals series:

Book 1: Staking a Claim by Janice Maynard
Book 2: Boyfriend Lessons by Sophia Singh Sasson
Book 3: On Opposite Sides by Cat Schield
Book 4: Rivalry at Play by Nadine Gonzalez
Book 5: Vacation Crush by Yahrah St. John
Book 6: An Ex to Remember by Jessica Lemmon
Book 7: Cinderella Masquerade by LaQuette
Book 8: One Christmas Night by Jules Bennett
Book 9: Rancher After Midnight by Karen Booth

 

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Book release date: December 27, 2022

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 What I thought about Rancher After Midnight

I  haven't read any of the other books in this series and Rancher After Midnight works well as a standalone.

This was a quick, easy and satisfying romance between two adults -- one of which has a big axe to grind and isn't about to forget it.  Heath Thurston is looking for revenge against the people he thinks swindled a family member, but when a survey comes back that leads the investigation in a different direction, he also meets the smart and sexy surveyor, Ruby Bennet. 

I adored Ruby.  She's such a sweet person and she has Heath's best interest at heart, even when he may not think that's true.  But she does manage to get him to think about things differently, and see what's really important.

Overall, a very nice holiday themed romance, with a pleasant heat level and two characters that were fairly easy to relate to at some level.  The story moved along quickly, which I really like and the characters both do some growing along the way.  It was easy to want them to get their HEA.  Win-win. 


  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Karen Booth is a Midwestern girl transplanted in the South, raised on '80s music and repeated readings of Forever by Judy Blume. When she's not writing about dreamy fictional men and the women who test them, she's in the garden, obsessing over college basketball, or spending time with her husband, college-age kids, and bratty cat.

https://karenbooth.net/ 

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