A straightforward, no nonsense romance with lots of good guy charm and a strong heroine made A Rancher’s Song a welcome addition to Ms. Arend’s Heart Falls series. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Blurb:
Can love help a champion bull rider face his fears and find his future? Welcome to Heart Falls, a new series from New York Times bestselling author Vivian Arend.
Ivy Field’s heart nearly broke when she left Heart Falls, but her high school sweetheart insisted she follow-through on her dream of becoming a teacher. She thought that meant putting their relationship on hold briefly, but it’s taken eleven years to return. Now she’s back, no longer a painfully shy young girl but a confident woman who knows exactly what and who she wants–a home and a family–with too-sexy-for-his-boots Walker Stone. He was her first; she wants him to be her last.
Walker “Dynamite” Stone was still reeling from his parents’ unexpected deaths when Ivy left. He let her go, throwing himself into work on the Silver Stone ranch and dangerous living on the rodeo circuit. But lately Walker’s adrenaline junkie ways have crashed–he’s having panic attacks. Potentially devastating to his budding music career, they’re a deadly handicap when shooting for eight seconds aboard an angry bull. He needs to learn to face his fears to save the family fortunes. If he succeeds, this time Walker will be the one to leave Heart Falls, and Ivy, behind.
Will Ivy and Walker have to give up on forever, or can they turn this rancher’s song into a winning duet?
Author Vivian Arend offers up a sweet and easy second chance romance in A Rancher’s Song, the second book in her Heart Falls series. Eleven years after Walker Stone convinced Ivy Field to leave and pursue her dream of becoming a teacher she is back in Heart Falls and ready to reconnect with the only man who has ever had her heart, but Walker is at a crossroads in his life and won’t commit to pursing her until he figures it out. Sweet with a bit of sexy this uncomplicated romance is everything I’m come to expect from this author.
It is never easy when one person is settling into a more permanent life and one is trying to figure out what comes next especially when there are extenuating circumstances. Ivy is happy to have a teaching position as well as the added title of assistant principal back in her hometown and happy to have her own place to remodel and decorate. For the past few months Walker has a condition that has him questioning his ability to still compete competitively as a bull rider and pursue another venture he has kept hidden from him family and finding out the family ranch may be in financial trouble makes his decision that much harder.
I liked that these two didn’t fall right back into the relationship they had as teens and began to know one another as adults. There wasn’t a magic fix to the problems that arose and together they worked to build their relationship even though at times it was tough because Walker refused to burden Ivy with everything going on in his world.
I enjoyed the interactions with both of their families and loved that family was so important to both of them giving them a firm foundation in which to build upon.
A straightforward, no nonsense romance with lots of good guy charm and a strong heroine made A Rancher’s Song a welcome addition to Ms. Arend’s Heart Falls series.
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