In The Wyoming Cowboy by Rebecca Winters, former marine Carson Lundgren is back home on his Wyoming ranch, where he and two other former marines have created a dude ranch to honor the families of fallen war heroes and bring a little joy and healing in their time of pain.
Tracy Beretta has been struggling with her son Johnny since the death of her husband the year before. Johnny has become an introvert and rarely wants to go out or interact with others. So when she receives the invitation from Carson Lundgren she doesn’t know if her son will be able to handle going there instead of going to spend all their vacation time with her ex-husbands family.
To Tracy’s surprise, when she gives the option to Johnny and they go browse the dude ranch’s website, he gets really excited after seeing all the pictures. She believes that he will not to stay once they arrive in Wyoming, but Carson wins over her son after giving him a picture that was taking in Afghanistan of Johnny’s father with other marines.
Carson is surprised by the immediate attraction to Tony Beretta’s widow. He knows that he asked them to be their first family to arrive in the dude ranch and was expecting a family in pain. But he did not expect the charming little boy and the gorgeous mother that landed from the plane.
The attraction is not one sided, Tracy also feels something for Carson, but she doesn’t believe that she can go so far away from Tony’s family, and the only relatives besides her that Johnny has.
Carson doesn’t know that Tracy feels the same way that he feels, but with his lung problems, due to inhalation of many damaging stuff during the war, he knows that he will always be weak in certain ways. And the fact that he left his grandfather, the man that raised him, in order to go to war still preys in his mind making him feel selfish. He was not able to be with his grandfather when he died and he does not feel deserving of his inheritance or of love.
Johnny thrives under Carson’s attention. Something that does not go unnoticed by Tracy. She knows that must be careful or when they go back home Johnny will not only be missing his father, but also go into deeper depression from missing Carson.
Tracy and Carson will have to learn that they are still deserving of love and that them being together will not affect others the way the think. They have the opportunity to be a family and be happy, if only they are willing to take the risk.
The Wyoming Cowboy by Rebecca Winters is a sweet and enchanting read that will leave you wanting more. I can’t wait to see what happens with Carson’s two friends while in the dude ranch.
Book Info
Publication Date: May 7, 2013 | Series: Harlequin American Romance (Book 1451)Widow Tracy Baretta and six-year-old Johnny have been struggling since losing their husband and father. When they meet Carson, his strength, patience and generosity—along with how great he looks on a horse—leads little Johnny to call him “king of the cowboys.” They’ve fallen in love with the place…and maybe with the man himself.
But is Tracy just looking for a surrogate father? Or could this incredible cowboy really be the one who’ll make her and her son believe in love again?
Sharlene Wegner
Sounds good! Thanks for the review!