About the Book
Book: Falling for a Shy Cowboy (Vargas Ranch Book 2)
Author: Karen Baney
Genre: Contemporary Christian Cowboy Romance
Release date: December 19, 2023
She’s a single mom with a disabled son. He’s been in love with her since high school. Will this shy cowboy finally win her heart?
Dylan Vargas is too shy for his own good. While he and his best friend Adan work with the horses on his family’s ranch near Wickenburg, Arizona, Adan signs him up for an online dating service. Dylan begrudgingly looks through the profiles. One face stands out above the others—that of his childhood crush. There’s only one impossible problem—she is Adan’s little sister.
Brisa Franco moves home to Wickenburg after a tragic car accident left her four-year-old son disabled. As she starts a new job in her hometown, she never expects to help her brother’s best friend in his quest to overcome a speech impediment.
Will Dylan steal her heart as she helps him learn how to release his anxiety? Will Brisa learn to trust him and let go of her deeply engrained fears from her past relationship?
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"Falling For A Shy Cowboy" by Karen Baney is a good feel read.It is a clean read. It is a second chance at love. Dylan has been in love with Brisa secretly for years. Because of his stuttering he has never dated. This book has a single mom and a single mom. This book kept me turning the pages. If a reader wants a clean feel good read, I say get a copy of "Falling For A Shy Cowboy" and I will say I don't think you will be disappointed.
I received a complementary copy from the author and Celebrate Lit and these opinions are my own.
About the Author
Karen Baney is passionate about writing stories full of flawed characters. She enjoys weaving together stories of second chances, redemption, and overcoming personal trials. As a transplant to Arizona, she loves researching the state’s history and finding ways to seamlessly incorporate real history and real settings into her novels. In addition to writing and speaking, Karen works as a Software Development Manager for a Christian ministry.
Her faith plays an important role both in her life and in her writing. Karen and her husband, Jim, make their home in Gilbert, Arizona, with their two dogs, Bella and Daisy. Both Jim and Karen are active at Rock Point Church in Queen Creek, Arizona.
More from Karen
You’ve Got Mail?
As an author, sometimes you write something so identifiable to readers that you (the author) completely miss the obvious. Yeah, I did that in Falling for a Shy Cowboy.
Since Dylan Vargas, our hero, deals with a speech impediment, I thought a great way to help him connect with his one true love would be through a dating app—one where he keeps avoiding meeting in person. His best friend, Adan, signed him up for the dating app with a profile picture that obscures part of his face. When Dylan looked through the app, he finds Adan’s sister Brisa on the app. Imagine his excitement that his long-term crush was available!
So, Dylan responds to Brisa’s profile as Wrangler92. He’s much more comfortable pouring out his heart through messages in the dating app than fighting with his speech impediment in person. She’s keeping a few secrets of her own through their interactions on the app, creating tension.
And viola! The You’ve-Got-Mail “trope” successfully applied.
If only I had realized that’s what I’d done. It wasn’t until one reviewer wrote, “Who doesn’t like a little You’ve Got Mail in a cowboy romance?”
This is where I face-palmed, laughed out loud, and finally realized my shy cowboy and his one true love are clearly written like the old Meg Ryan & Tom Hanks movie You’ve Got Mail.
Anyway, I will be forever grateful to Jerah A. for pointing out the obvious connection. I hope you enjoy my take on a shy cowboy who woos a single mom a la You’ve Got Mail style.
Blog Stops
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Tell Tale Book Reviews, October 30 (Author Interview)
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, October 31
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Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, November 2 (Author Interview)
Holly’s Book Corner, November 3
A Modern Day Fairy Tale, November 4 (Author Interview)
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, November 5
Artistic Nobody, November 6 (Author Interview)
Simple Harvest Reads, November 7
Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Karen is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon card and a signed copy of the book!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
4 comments:
This looks likeca great novel. Thanks for sharing and hosting this tour.
Sounds absolutely wonderful
Thanks so much for the lovely recommendation for Falling for a Shy Cowboy. :)
It will be a joy to see Dylan win the one who has his heart.
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