Colton Cowboy Jeopardy by Regan Black is the eighth book in Harlequin’s The Coltons of Mustang 
Valley series. Regan Black does an phenomenal job of moving the storyline along at a perfect pace.
Mia Graves and her stepmother Regina did not get along. From the time when Regina first entered Mia’s life they never got along. Things have deteriorated sharply. Fear is running rampant through Regina, putting her on the run. Regina has threatened her son and her father. Mia hadn’t known that Regina was using the Graves family country house for her extramarital affairs. She was starting a new career as a real estate agent after her divorce and the birth of her son Silas and her father was her first client asking her to sell the country house. When Mia shows up to video the country house for the listing she finds Regina and her lover and got them on video. Thus the threats by Regina for Mia to turn over the video or else. What else can she do but run with her infant son and hide? Her father always believes Regina over her. Mia is desperate. That’s how she ends up in the warming hut on the Colton family’s Triple R Ranch and that’s where Jarvis Colton finds her.
Jarvis Colton had a good job as a management consultant but gave that job up to become a cowboy. He got a job on the Triple R Ranch. (Jarvis’ branch of the family is not acknowledged by the Oil Coltons who own the ranch.) Jarvis found it was just right for him. Yes, he enjoys the job but it also gives him access to his quest location. His deceased grandfather, Isaiah Colton, always insisted that the Colton patriarch, Payne Colton’s ancestor stole the ranch from Jarvis’ ancestor. Isaiah told Jarvis there was a metal box buried on the property that could prove the claim. On his own time Jarvis is searching for the box. That’s how he discovers Mia and Silas at the warming hut. Jarvis isn’t one for falling in love and having his own wife and family. He always loses the ones he loves and doesn’t want to face that loss again, but he couldn’t not help Mia and baby Silas. He got them to a safer location and couldn’t stop going back.
Her characters are three-dimensional and quite interesting. She writes a mean antagonist. The plot will keep readers turning the pages. This story continues the overall arc of the mystery of Payne Colton’s shooting and the mysterious baby switch. This book easily can be read as a standalone but I believe readers will get more enjoyment out of reading the series from the beginning.
Book Info:
Publication: April 1st 2020 | Harlequin Romantic Suspense | Coltons of Mustang Valley #8
On the run from a sociopath…
And no one to trust
Mia Graves is in danger—and so is her baby. Jarvis Colton is exploring a family mystery when their paths cross on the outskirts of Rattlesnake Ridge Ranch. After the trauma of losing his parents, this businessman turned cowboy has no intention of making himself vulnerable ever again. Just this once, he can help a family, but can he protect Mia without falling in love?
