I absolutely loved this book - my favourite book of the Wells Ranch series!

You meet Blair Hart as she returns to Wells Canyon years after leaving for school to come face to face with her first love and first boy to break her heart, Denver Wells.

The emotional rollercoaster in this book is so good - this is a second chance romance, with a dual timeline and dual POV so you are seeing their second chance as you learned why it broke the first time round! There are a few sensitive topics covered in this book, but Hannah Bailey deals with them so well and in a nuanced way. It was so heart warming to see the characters fall for each other in both timelines and you are really rooting for them to make it! I love being able to see the previous FMCs and MMCs from the Wells Ranch series too and how their doing!

As with Bailey Hannah's other books, the spice in spicing. Blair and Denny have such good chemistry and it is written in such an engaging way too!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice Rating: 🌶🌶🌶🌶

Tropes:
Second Chance Romance
Dual Timeline
Dual POV
Childhood Friends to Lovers
Cowboy Romance
Small Town Romance
He is DOWN BAD!!

♾️ stars!

Bailey. You’ve blown me away! Oh my!!!! You are incredible! This book had me hooked from start to finish and I didn’t want it to end. I’m so emotionally attached to these characters, the love I have for them is infinite 🩵 I will never be over this and I’m not mad about it, I don’t think I have any tears left! This book is 6+ stars!! I didn’t think anyone could beat daddy red 😭

Blair Bear - that nickname had me tearing up everytime I read it!!! I adored Blair from the very start, I felt so connected to her and everything she was feeling. From teenager to adult, I’ve never felt so seen. Blair felt so relatable and I fell so in love with her character! The emotions she had me feeling makes me tear up just thinking about it 🥹 I loved seeing her blossom and seeing her grow, plus seeing the found family around her! My heart would melt everytime she was with Denny’s family!! Being able to learn more and more about Blair, why she felt the way she did and understanding her trauma had me crying but also knowing that all those feelings are so valid. I was so invested in her story, she captured my heart and soul and I can’t describe how grateful I am to have read her story.

Denver. The man you are. My heart is his, the way he felt was just so pure and beautiful. He had flaws but it felt so real and I loved it. I felt every emotions he felt as I was reading his book. He was a complex character in terms of his emotions and the trauma he’d experienced too made me feel so emotionally attached to him. And understanding how he coped with grief hit so hard, knowing what he went through, you just knew he was someone with a lot of feelings and a lot of love and you couldn’t not fall in love with him. I sobbed with him, seeing his POV from both the flashbacks and present day built up this need and want for him to be finally happy. He is a man OBSESSED!!! They both deserved nothing but the best.

I cried myself to sleep multiple times reading this and I have NO regrets! This story captivated me, I couldn’t put it down but I also didn’t want it to end ever. The flashbacks in this book were some of my favourite scenes, I loved seeing how they became friends, to lovers, to strangers. It truly was such a special experience. This book proved that everyone has their person, whether it be a romantic relationship or platonic. The friendship and family connections we saw with them all had me feeling many things. I loved seeing the representation in this book, the disease that Blair’s mum has hit home. I related to the emotions they were all feeling and it set me off a few times. It’s so hard to describe the pain you’re experiencing because there’s no stopping it from happening, you learn how to cope . And that’s exactly what Bailey did in this book. So thank you Bailey to sharing this. This second chance took me on an emotional rollercoaster, grief is such a complex and complicated process but this was beautifully written. The love between every single character heightened the emotions and adoration I have for them all. I’m also a sucker for a special place in books!🥹 There is a few memorable references but all I say is prepare yourself with tissues. I could go on and on about this book, there’s so many different things that had hooked me as well as everything that made me falling in love with them. This reading journey was the best experience. I’m so grateful I got to read their story. Now it’s time for some ice cream 👀

Denny loved his girl, and Blair loved her boy.

What to expect -
🩵 high school sweethearts
🩵 barrel racer x saddlebronc
🩵 dual timeline
🩵 second chance
🩵 reformed playboy
🩵 ice cream
🩵 mental health rep

Thank you so much Bailey and Orion fiction for this arc! I’m so so so grateful to have had this opportunity 🫶🏼

I’m so happy we finally got Blair’s story! We’re already introduced to her in book 2 so have a general overview of who she is. I love how we dive right into her being reacquainted with Denver who we obviously know from the previous books from his reputation with women as well as mischievous antics with Austin and the other cowboys.

We get insight into a bad ass FMC who has so much on her plate and refuses to show weakness. The awareness for depression and pregnancy termination really stood for doing what is best for you and not doing things to please other people as well as learning to accept help when you can’t help yourself in terms of mental health. We learn from both Blair and Denver that it’s okay to have somebody to lean on.

Denver relied on Blair during his mother’s sickness/death but when it came to her needing a shoulder, he let her down. Luckily, he learnt from his teen years and grew into a man who was honest about where he went wrong and did everything in his power to prove to Blair that he could be there for her, from little moments helping with her moms Alzheimer’s, bringing her coffee, making her work/home life easier and being so accepting of her mental health and setting alarms for her tablets incase she forgot. He really developed into a reliable, trustworthy man allowing Blair to learn to accept that it’s okay to want help.

I loved the little snippets of where Cassidy and Red, Austin and Cecily were in their developing relationships, we get to explore the depth of Blair’s friendship with Cassidy where she’s considered Hazels auntie as well as our little chaotic girl Squad organising Cecily’s wedding!

Lucy Wells death absolutely broke my heart, I was in that room with the Wells boys sobbing. It was a heartbreaking yet intimate scene, exploring the different ways people cope with loss and grief. I feel like it was really special how her memory and essence was really kept alive after her passing tho, her presence was still felt throughout the story.

I adored the childhood throwbacks between chapters and liked that we get them early on in the book, gradually learning on Blair and Denver’s history. Once we get all the information, we get to enjoy their relationship progression with no miscommunication!!

The spicy scenes were to die for! Pleasure dom yes please! And exploring different kinks was so fun! I appreciated that this book wasn’t completely sex driven, we really get a lot of plot with the perfect balance of spice.

This was the most PERFECT childhood lovers, second chance romance I’ve ever read.

The feel that the overall message of this book was that life is so unexpected and we really take time for granted. Holding grudges and not learning from our own mistakes wastes so much time. Living in the now and loving with your whole heart is so important as well as telling those around you how much you love and appreciate them.

Ps. The Googly eyed lettuce scene with Bennett Wells, Blair and Denver had me in stitches!!

“Spread yourself baby, show me what I’ve been missing”
“I need to know if you still sound the same when you’re coming for me”
“Blair Wells. My wife. Finally” - Denver

“I’ve always belonged to him. Arguing that fact was pointless”
“You can’t be over here with a f#cking backwards hat on, doing all this manly sh#t, and expect me not to notice”
“I was always coming back to you, Denver. No one else has ever felt like home” - Blair

Oh, to be back in Wells Canyon. The perfect setting for cowboy romances. As if the men from Alive and Wells and Seeing Red weren’t perfect enough, just wait until you meet Denny.

“Time is a fickle bitch; days are long, years are short and it seems to stand still altogether when Denver and I are involved.”

I love a second chance romance as much as the next person, but this, this was unreal.

Blair has to move back to her hometown of Wells Canyon to care for her unwell mother, but there’s a reason that she’s avoided the place for so long. And in typical small-town fashion, there’s no running from her past.

A child barrel racer who was brought into the Wells family as the daughter they never had, Blair and Denver have a history that came to an explosive end over a decade ago, and through flashbacks, their past and present draws you in.

To Denny, Blair is the one who got away. And he never thought that she would come back. So, her reappearance has Denver trying to right his wrongs from many years ago. Which is easier said than done when she’s working so hard to look after her mother.

A second chance romance for the ages. With a dual-timeline and dual-POV structure, Bailey Hannah has hit new heights in her cowboy romance era. The romance was swoon-worthy. The spice was off the scale. And Blair and Denver are officially one of my favourite fictional couples.

Highly recommend!

Thank you NetGalley and Orion for the arc in exchange for an honest review!

Blair is back in Wells Canyon for her mom. Denver was her first love and she wants go stay away from him, but they can’t help each other and fall in love again.
I loved the first two books of the saga. The first few chapters were really good, but after that I didn’t fall into the story. I didn’t liked Blair, I struggled understanding her, even if I understood. And I was hoping more of their life at the ranch and rodeo.
It’s still a good story and I love Bailey Hannah’s writing.