Love of a Cowboy (McGrath Book 2)

Skye Kennedy thought she lived the perfect life at Sunrise Fellowship. It was a peaceful atmosphere all around until it wasn't. When Gabriel's father passed on and he took over things changed and not for the good. He wanted it to be better. His idea of better was not within the scope of the law. He wanted Skye to be his wife as everyone around loved her. He felt with her at his side he would be accepted. He didn't take into account that she wanted no part of becoming his wife.The night Skye saw Gabriel murder Lucy changed everything. She ran and took with her what she needed to take him down. When Gabriel found out he sent his men out to find her and bring her back. She would know better than to cross him. Skye ran from Sunrise to Montana and then made her way to Declan McGrath's ranch. When she saw him she asked for a place to stay and food and she would work for it. She would do anything he asked of her. She surprised Declan and went above and beyond.Declan was taken with her from the moment he met her yet knew she was hiding something. As time went on they got to know each other but she couldn't tell him all her secrets. She didn't want to put him in danger after he was so good to her. That's all I am going to say. This was a real page turner. There were some tears shed but I finished with a smile. I loved every page of this book and didn't want to end.

This is a Stay Up All Night and enjoy a great read . As always, Jennifer Ryan just doesn't disappoint. Hate that I have to wait for the next book in the series, but do so with so much anticipation!

What a great story. This book kept me reading it all in one sitting. I would recommend this book highly. I have read a lot of her books and never been disappointed.

Great new story in this series filled with all the love, suspense and action I've come to expect from this Author. Recommended read.

Love of a Cowboy in the second book in Jennifer Ryan's McGrath series, and I'll admit to not being over the moon about the first book in the series, Waiting on a Cowboy, which I read and reviewed, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I liked this second book a much better read than the last one, and it gets 4-stars from this reader.First the setting, a Wyoming commune called the Sunrise Fellowship, whose members live and farm there, a peaceful group that believes in kindness, cooperation, community, and separation from modern technology. It was started by a kind, gentle man, but upon his death, his son, Gabriel, took the reins, and to call him a greedy, self-absorbed monster is putting it mildly. He couldn't care less about carrying on his father's legacy--he's only interested in money, power, and has slowly been eroding the very values of the community, and perverting them as well, and one member of community, Skye Kennedy, has been suspicious of him for some time, and for good reason.As the novel opens, Skye, who is scheduled to marry Gabriel the next day, along with other young girls from the commune, who will be married off to men Gabriel has chosen for them, sees his evil for herself. She doesn't love, trust, or want him, and when she hears voices coming from his bedroom, she soon witnesses him with 14-year-old, Lucy, and is shocked to overhear that he's not only impregnated the young girl, who fancies herself in love with him, but he is so outraged that beats and kicks her in the stomach, causing her to miscarry, and, as his violence continues, to die from blood loss. Skye is shocked and stunned, but instead she quickly gathers up the rest of the young brides-to-be, and flees into town to inform the group's lawyer and the police to report what's been going on at Sunrise. What she'll soon learn is that the police, and a group of violent separatists are in cahoots with with Gabriel, and Skye alone manages to get away before the other girls are rounded up and returned to Sunrise.Fast forward one week, and Skye, hungry, tired, bedraggled, and cold is found by Declan McGrath, a Montana rancher, after she's gathered some fallen apples from the ground at his ranch. Having been born and raised at Sunrise, Skye has had no experience with the outside world, but she begs Declan to let her have the apples, and to work for him in return to staying on his ranch. She won't divulge why, but Declan finds himself drawn to the young woman, and on faith alone, hires her, and so begins a slow-growing respect, admiration, and attraction to the hard-working young woman, and Declan's curiosity about her past, as he tries to learn what drove her to such a desperate choice, and why she so fears being discovered, even though she's unaware of the fact that after she fled Sunrise, Gabriel has covered his tracks, and has claimed to the police and the members of Sunrise, that Skye, in a fit of jealous rage after learning that Lucy was pregnant with his child, that she was the one who murdered Lucy and her unborn baby.What follows is a far more suspenseful and complicated romance novel than I expected. Skye and Declan's slow growing admiration, attraction, relationship and respect for one another, coupled with their mutual desire to protect one another was handled with great delicacy and restraint, and these two well-developed characters, their doubts, their fears, and their willingness to risk their very lives in their quest to gain justice for poor Lucy, and to return the commune to it's former good works is truly admirable. But if Skye somehow manages to get justice and clear her name, Declan wonders what will happen to their budding relationship, if and when Skye returns to the commune and her family. It's a question I won't answer in this review, but it's definitely worth reading this well-written novel to find out.I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.

Love of a Cowboy by Jennifer RyanContemporary romance with some suspense. 2nd good in the McGraths series. Can be read as a stand-alone.Skye escapes from her home after witnessing a murder. She ends up on Declan’s ranch where he gives her a job and immediately falls for her. The danger is not over for Skye though. An anti-government extremist group has tracked her down. They want their money, guns and war supplies that Skye managed to hide before leaving.Declan is unhappy and unsatisfied with his life. His brother Tate calls him a perfectionist. Skye changes his attitude, his focus and his single status.I admired the heroine for her intellectual strength and commitment to her community, knowing right and wrong, and doing what it takes to get to her goals. More than once I thought the hero should make a move instead of leaving it up to her. Why should she give up everything? On the other hand, his ranch is generational. I was conflicted. Their clear love for each other helped resolved my uncertainty.The author handled the issues well and successfully achieving the emotional happy ever after.“Declan made her sigh with pure contentment. Just watching him walk down the sidewalk, his gaze locked on her, that sexy smile, telling her he was happy to see her, all of it just made her happy.”I received a copy of this from NetGalley.