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Cowboy Christmas Redemption by Maisey Yates

(Gold Valley #8)

Genre: Contemporary, Romance. Holiday, Western, Christmas

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Pages: 352

Published: September 24th 2019 by HQN Books
Rating: ☆☆☆☆
Christmas Cheer : 💚💚💚

As snowflakes fall in Gold Valley, Oregon, will this rugged cowboy finally win the woman of his dreams?

Cowboy Caleb Dalton has loved single mom Ellie Bell, and her little daughter, Amelia, for years. But since Ellie is his best friend’s widow, Caleb’s head knows Ellie will always be strictly off-limits. If only his heart got the memo. So when Caleb discovers that Ellie has a Christmas wish list—and hopes for a kiss under the mistletoe—he’s throwing his cowboy hat into the ring. If anyone’s going to be kissing Ellie and sharing this magical time with her and her daughter, it’s him.

Ellie has dreaded the holidays since losing her husband. But this year, she’s finally ready to make some changes. She never expects the biggest change to be the heart-stopping kiss she shares with Caleb. For almost five years, Caleb has been her best friend, her rock, her salvation. This Christmas, can Caleb prove he’s also the missing puzzle piece of Ellie’s and Amelia’s hearts?

Caleb is looking to separate himself a bit from Ellie, a single mother who he's had his eye on but shes his best friends widow. Ellie is finally ready to make some changes and comes up with her Christmas's list and really anyone would do to help tick the things off the boxes. But it would be better to have someone who she already cares for to help her out and that's where Caleb comes in. Thing is its hard to separate their feelings of friendship into something more with a list like theirs. There is so much things getting in the way if they start something with each other.

This is a story about heartbreak, healing and learning to grow from past troubles. Ellie is still reeling from the death of her husband and with a past like hers she was so worried about what her life would be like if she ever tried to start something with someone else after what she went though. Then there's Caleb with his own set of issues and guilt and hes still having trouble separating his feelings for his friend. For a long time he's never done anything about his feelings because clearly Ellie and his friend had plenty of love and he would do nothing to ruin that. There is so much issues that are going around between the two and they both need to let things out in the open, and figure out how to get past that. Then there is the list, Ellie's list to getting back out there - sort of.  Clearly feelings are going to get in the way but it was still fun to read about. As for the Christmas spirit of the book, while there are a few little details that go on with this book that would take place at Christmas time I wouldn't stay it screamed Christmas. While it was cute to read it didn't get me into the Christmas spirit but it was still a great book to read in general. If you are looking for a book with subtle Christmas themes going on you might want to put this book on your holiday tbr list but in general it is a pretty great book I really enjoyed it.