Review Rocky Mountain Angel by Vivian Arend

"Rocky Mountain Angel (Six Pack Ranch #4)"
Author: Vivian Arend
Genre: ContemporaryWestern Romance
Pages: 301
Source: Author in exchange for a honest review.
Published: November 20, 2012
Author's Website: http://www.vivianarend.com/books/six-pack-ranch/rocky-mountain-angel/

Buy Links: Amazon US - AllRomance

Goodreads Blurb: 
Sometimes even Angels must learn to fly…

Six Pack Ranch, Book 4

Allison Parker needs a convincing excuse to come home to Rocky Mountain House. A hopelessly romantic reason that won’t let her mother suspect the truth—that Allison has discovered Mom is keeping a terrible secret from the family.

Gabe Coleman is struggling with two of the roughest parts of ranching: dealing with his bull-headed mule of a father, and making enough to pay the bills. When his old friend Allison offers to help him develop his ideas for organic ranching—in trade for pretending to be her fiancé—it sounds like the perfect set-up.

Yet the deception leads them in an unexpected direction, where their shared daily hells are erased by nights of heavenly distraction. It’s not supposed to be real, but once the gates are opened, there’s no denying they’ve found in each other a little bit of Paradise.

To break free of the past and face the future, though, will take more than temporary pleasures. It’ll take putting their hearts on the line.

Product Warnings
Tortured hero with a guardian-angel complex, grief-stricken heroine willing to sacrifice everything for family. Break out the tissues, this trip to the ranch is a heart-breaker on the way to the HEA.

My Review: I fell in love with the characters (well all of them except for one) and the story from the start. There’s so much an everyday person can relate to and it’s so lovingly written that it holds you tight until the very end! You’ll cry, laugh and find yourself unable to put the book down because you’ll feel like you’ll miss what’s going to happen next. Any fan of contemporary or western romance will fall in love with Rocky Mountain Angel :)

Allison needs a great reason to be back in her hometown, one that is believable and great! She makes a decision and goes bolting (yes, super-fast break neck speed on horseback) straight into Gabe’s arms. She needs his help, desperately. Wanting, needing to make a realistic reason for her being back there and at the same time making her mother happy. Now all she needs is to convince him to help her and she offers up to help him at the same time.

Gabe is one of the most lovable, handsome, kind hearted and sexy male characters I’ve ever had the pleasure to “meet”. He’s the type of guy that will give the clothes off his back to someone in need in below freezing temperatures. He also is a very patient man. Practically daily he has no choice but to stand there and receive a verbal lashing, filled with nothing but insults and put downs by his father, each and every one very wrongly given to poor Gabe and it affects him none the less. This one thing is always on his mind, troubling him, never going away. That all begins to change for the better once Allison approaches him with an… arrangement (of sorts) and the means to help him set some of his plans of improvement to the ranch in action.

Even though this is book 4 of the Six Pack Ranch series, it can be read as a stand-alone. You will not be lost or missing anything of importance that lead up to this story. However I do recommend eventually reading the others in the series. They are each different and all very enjoyable.

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