The Comeback Cowboy by Maisey Yates, Caitlin Crews, Jackie Ashenden, and Nicole Helm

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The Comeback Cowboy by Maisey Yates, Caitlin Crews, Jackie Ashenden, and Nicole Helm, book four in their Jasper Creek series, is a wonderful, connected compilation of stories that turned enemies into cohorts and friends, crushes into love, and were all filled with laughter, tears, some heat, and a deep understanding of the human psyche, and the positive difference a place like Camp Phoenix can make.

 

Camp Phoenix was a summer camp for at-risk children to attend rather than ending up in juvenile incarceration, or expelled from school. Owned and operated by the sheriff of Jasper Creek, Oregon, Bill McClain, he helped these young people turn their lives around. Bill died several years ago, and four men, all now in law enforcement, and who became friends years earlier while attending the camp, have bought the camp; which is now in need of repairs, and a lot of TLC. They are planning to reopen it for the summer. The guys enlisted the aid of four girls, former campers who returned for their own reasons, to help renovate and revive the campgrounds before the campers arrive. Oh what an interesting summer it's going to be for Flint, Lincoln, Jackson, Duke, Bree, Violet, Kinley, and Clementine as we get to see how the camp influenced their decisions and how they find love and friendship.

Each author has taken the story of one of the women connecting with one of the men; sharing it and showing how they are all connected to each other. Each story can be read individually, but reading the stories in order helps with the flow and you get to revisit the other characters in each story. Each author shares where each person came from and what brings them back. We see how these women have fared since they left the camp as teenagers and how far they have come from that angry girl who may have followed a different path had they not ended up at Camp Phoenix. Each of these novellas are wrapped up in a truly charming epilogue, and what these four authors have created is a joyous, magical, funny, charming, and touching homage to sisterhood, womanhood, family and friends, and I cannot recommend The Comeback Cowboy highly enough and excitedly look forward to their next collaboration.

 

I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.

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