Cowboy Strong: Includes a Bonus Novella

Really enjoyed this friends to lovers/marriage of convenience story. Pax and Alana are great characters and throughout the story you feel they are made for each other. The two of them seem to be the only ones who don't know that! The characters are well developed, the wonderful small town is charming and the story is intriguing so it has everything you need for a relaxing entertaining read. I definitely recommend this one.

Cowboy Strong is the seventh book in the Longhorn Canyon series, but if you haven't read any of the other books, you can easily pick this one up and enjoy it without issue. Alana Carey is rancher through and through and she loves it! When she learns that her father is terminally ill, the only thing she can think of is the numerous times that he has told her he just wants to see her married and settled before he passed. With her mind whirling, she goes to the one person she knows will help her out and agree to a ruse of a marriage so she can make her father happy. Paxton Callahan has recently come back to the ranch that he runs with his brother next door to Alana's family ranch. He's known for enjoying the ladies, but when Alana comes to him and tells him what is going on with her father, he doesn't hesitate to say yes to marrying her. As the two of them begin the wedding planning process, they are also working overtime to make sure that no one figures out that they aren't as "together" as everyone believes. What neither has shared, is that they both have harbored feelings for the other for years. Will this wedding really end in a split after Alana's father passes or is this the real deal and it will just take some time for them to figure it out? I enjoyed this book from the second I started it. There was something about Alana and Pax that just drew me in. I was invested in what happened and how everything played out with them. It was sweet how their romance ended up unfolding. I look forward to any upcoming books that Carolyn Brown has to offer.

ARC for honest review with no compensation Received from NetGalley and Forever Cowboy Strong is book 7 in the Longhorn Canyon series by Carolyn Brown, this is my first book in this series and while a stand-alone I want to read the others books to see how all the couples got together! Alana and Pax have know each other since they were kids but never really connect as teens though they each had crushes on the other. Now years later, when Alana gets some devastating news about her father she turns to Pax and what happens next is frustrating, tears, chuckles, friends to lovers, and a fake marriage...or is it fake?