After so many starts and stops they were able to embrace life and the family they started and he had the heir he always wanted.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

The blurb of this book is crazily long. Anyone could get the idea that this story is saturated with different plots and lots of character development. That impression couldn’t have been more misplaced. This has been a pain to read in many levels…

We put on our stetsons and cowboy boots to travel to a small town in Texas, where Chelsea, the newcomer, has just got a position as a kindergarten teacher. Her first night there, she goes to a bar and meets Parker, the cowboy by day and hunk by all hours. They present each other and, in less than you can say potato, they start kissing and getting all handy. This ends in an unexpected pregnancy (Chelseas’s, duh!!). Too bad she doesn’t even know where the guy lives or his surname. It seems motherhood is a challenge she will face alone… unless Fate has other plans…

This book is so bad, I don’t know where to start. I guess I could talk about the story, but… what story?? The most interesting and suspenseful part of the book is knowing if a cow is going to give more or less milk. Honest! There is nothing else that could keep the reader on turning pages. Nothing remotely interesting at least. We are presented with a lot of strange plot threads: the pregnancy, the romance, the Trent family, the problems of the dairy, the new animal program on Chelsea’s school… A bunch of ideas thrown together that are pretty messy and very badly developed. So, so badly that most of them are incomplete. Why do you introduce so many plots if you are going to forget about them? If the romance were mindblowing I could forgive it, but taking into account it is horrible… at least give me something else, don’t you think?

I guess the focus is on the pregnancy and that Chelsea was facing it as a single mother due to the fact she didn’t know how to contact Parker. Sadly, it starts in a very poor and infurating manner. How can Chelsea be surprised about her pregnancy? You had UNPROTECTED sex with a person you had just met. The only thing you knew about the guy was his name. Getting a baby is actually the best case scenario. Or STDs have been eradicated and I haven’t got the memo? I don’t think so. It baffles me how normal this book makes having unsafe sex with a stranger. It even hints about being Parker’s MO. Not two chapters into the book and my blood was already boiling. I couldn’t believe what I was reading.

And if you think we could count on the characters to save this mess… you are wrong. What an annoying bunch of human beings. I will start with Chelsea. Could she be more of a whiner? I get she is used to doing everything by herself, but her inability to accept kindness is madenning. She gets so angry with Parker everytime he tries to help her. Yes, it is bad form to go behind her back to rearrange her life (for the better), but that doesn’t grant her the freedom to lash out like that. And the hypocrisy of this woman is boundless!!! She complaints about Parker’s antics, but she does exactly the same to him several times. And she has the nerve to get angry when Parker doesn’t like that? I can’t stomach her.

And Parker… well… he is slightly better. But just a little bit. If you don’t like Chelsea getting angry when you help her, I guess you have lost the right of being angry when she helps you. I have just realized the book is just a dance about who is angry at a time. They both take turns, so during most of the book at least one of them is pissed at the other. So much fun. Horrible couple. That makes the sex scenes (the copy/paste to get more pages) unbearable.

Yes, I have had too many “Kill me now!!” moments while reading this book. I always try to find something positive, but this time I can’t save anything. Let’s hope next books on my list are better, because the last ones are making me rethink about the getting up-to-date with my NetGalley reviews…

The Cowboy's Heir, by Mary Sue Jackson and Leslie North is the dream book for all of those who love cowboys.

Chelsea Karnes is a teacher who always dreamed of moving out west, ad she finally got an interview. She loved cowboys and novels since she was a teenager, and that's her chance to get to know the west side of the country.

But she did not anticipate that she was going to meet a real cowboy in her first night in the city. And that's how it all begins.

This book is really interesting and hot. The characters are really well constructed. It is fun to read a book that tells a good story, showing the lives of simple people. The people of the city are kind and honest, and it's awesome to read.

The authors kept the level until the end. It's not a book that has only sex scenes. The real plot is very interesting. I just loved it.

You had me at COWBOY. that was enough for me to want to read this book and plus i love the author. I enjoyed every second.

Chelsea Karnes has dreamed of moving out west to "wide open spaces" ever since reading her first cowboy romance at age. So when Chelsea gets offered a teaching position at an "alternative" elementary school in Texas she sees it as fate's design and goes all in. Even hooking up with a cowboy on her. Parker Trent is now a careful man. He's inherited a sizeable dairy farm from his father, and he himself looks at the purity of his milk and the purity of his dating record: he only dates tourists. Dating to be in the middle of a happy new year, up and down the new school.
This was a decent enough book. It follows a lot of the basic unplanned pregnancy tropes. Both main characters were ok. I was able to read it quick enough.
**I voluntarily read and reviewed this book

Loved this new book by Mary Sue Jackson & Leslie North. Chelsea & Parker were a surprise from the beginning. I hope they write a second book about Parker's sister Mia.

This is my 40th (Leslie North) book I think lol could be more 😊 but I think this is my favourite in a long time.....it just caught my attention and held it the whole way through. Didn’t want this book to end and I will definitely be re-reading this one over and over again. Plus I can tell “Mary Sue Jackson” is going to be another one click author for me just like “Leslie North” is. Happy reading everyone!!!!

I hate the cover but I enjoyed the book. I felt like it felt a little contrived and I wish it felt a little more organic but it was a quick read.

I really enjoyed this story!

I thought that it was a really good story and I was able to read it at a good pace without details getting in the way.

I thought that the characters worked well together and I really enjoyed getting to know them as the book progressed. I really enjoyed the story and was addicted to the plot right from the outset.

It is five stars from me for this one, I really enjoyed it - very highly recommended!!

This was an interesting book with two main characters. Parker and Chelsea were both strong people and it was enjoyable seeing how their story enfolded. I was pleased that story had a happy ending after lots of problems. I would recommend this book.

An enjoyable romance between two people with good reasons to be wary of romantic entanglements. Parker and Chelsea were quite well developed characters and I quite enjoyed seeing how they interacted when, three months after their one night stand, Chelsea turns up to work for Parker - with quite the surprise consequences too!

Fast paced and fun, a little unrealistic at times, but this is romance, if we wanted full reality we wouldn’t be here. Well written characters with chemistry, full of heart.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

The Cowboy's Heir is a steady-paced, easy to read and sometimes complicated story of two people finding their way, after a moment of passion that was never meant to repeat. Chelsea and Parker come from very different backgrounds, but through unexpected events they find that their love of the wide-open spaces of Texas and a hard, yet simple way of life are actually the same.

While a times they both had frustrating tendencies, and lacked the ability to let go of their independence, this was an enjoyable read with a good storyline, and solid plot, and interesting characters. I look forward to Ms Jackson’s next rousing tale.

A fair story overall, and it kept my interest, although skimmable at times. Never considered a dairy farmer a cowboy, which Parker is, but I guess that is alright. A little surprised that Chelsea, a kindergarten teacher, would go for a one night stand and then get pregnant. Not many schools would want that for a role model for their children. Just saying. A lot of angst, a lot of growing up both need to do before their HEA. Would recommend, but a little different than expected.

I really enjoyed this story, Parker and Chelsea were well suited characters and their road to romance was enjoyable. I look forward to reading more by these authors

A big thank you to NetGalley and Relay Publishing for the ARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. I thought this was an ok book. A lot of angst. Also, I am not fond of stories about one night stands where there is no talk of birth control. Pretty stupid for a 29 year old. Other than that it's an ok book. Preston really isn't a cowboy, but a dairy farmer. I give it 3.5 stars.

Poor Michelle needs to get a clue.

Whoa Nelly!

Awkward.

A real accountant would have run away screaming by now.

Her mother let a seven-year-old make her own dinner?!

The martyr act is just annoying.

At least she knows when she needs to apologize.

Um, what kind of power would he have had to control his grown mother?

Sex is not the answer to every problem.

It's just bedding. Besides, having spares with a baby is always necessary.

Parker is overbearing. This causes a lot of problems for Chelsea. He has to learn real fast to give her more freedom to make her own choices. Chelsea is just as stubborn as Parker is overbearing. It's constantly a bomb ready to explode between them. It was fun reading how these two learn to compromised.