They had teenage love and after a fight she fled with another. She was severely infured and is scarred and no longer looks like herself 19 years later to care for her grandmother and he's divorced, raising his teenage daughter. I felt this one had a lot more depth than the first one. I enjoyed the characters, there were a few minor editing items but overall and enjoyable read.
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Cat Hayden hasn't had an easy life. She grew up with two alcoholic parents. The only good thing about her childhood was being with Blake McBride but after finishing high school she wanted nothing more than to leave town and Blake wouldn't go with her so they broke up and she left on her own.

When she was 19 working working with a rancher on rehabilitating horses the horse turned on her broke many bones, cracked her skull and cheek. This required both brain surgery and extensive plastic surgery which changed her looks. This also ended her barrel racing days.

Nineteen years later she comes home to take care of her grandmother but doesn't reconnect with old friends from her past. The accident has left her more of a introvert and insecure about her looks.

While teaching a horse club to 4-H'ers she finds out one of the girl's in the group is Blake's 14 year old daughter Demi. To say they are both shocked to see each other is an understatement.

Blake realizes as soon as he see Cat that his feelings for her have never changed in the 19 years since she left him. He knew she wanted to leave Prescott but be never thought she'd leave the way she did. After marrying a woman who turned out to have both a drug and alcohol addiction and end the end walking away from him and their daughter his made his life be about his ranch and his daughter.

This book covered a range of subjects from dealing with the after effects of a traumatic brain injury, being the children of addicts for which both Cat and Demi are, messy custody battles and many other things. I thought the author did a very good job of showing a realistic view of these things.

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After buying and reading the box Riding Tall with books 1-3, I can give the same review for all three books.
The story lines themselves are not too bad, but the execution wasn't great. Last year I dnf'ed the first book, but this time I persevered because I bought the box.
In all three books there were so many unimportant details at times that it made the book very slow and I got bored and skipped those scenes.
The heroes in the books are ladykillers, as we're told, but fall for the heroine right away. All three heroines take some convincing.
The sex scenes in the books don't seem to fit in with the rest of the stories. Suddenly the heroes are very domineering and demanding etc. Obviously Fifty Shades became a success at the time of writing, but I kept having a wtf reaction each time, so... I skipped those scenes.
The characters were all a bit 'cookie cutter', but the 'villain' in the third book was so cliché, he was ridiculous.
All in all, not even worth the 0.99 usd I paid for the box.
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Rereading it. Actually, it isn't that bad this time round. I like the family drama more than the explicit parts. ( )

Roping Your Heart is one of the contemporary series about Cat who came back to her hometown for her grandmother after years of staying away from everyone including her teenage love, Blake whom she left for a better life, away from her miserable father. Scarred from an incident with a horse and from her miserable marriage which end with the tragic lost of her daughter. She came back to her old world and seemed to never remember why she wanted to leave in the first place when she sees Blake whom she still had feelings for him again.

Blake was now a divorcee and a father for his daughter Demi. Years later, Blake never seemed to hold a grudge against Cat for leaving him when they were young as he understood her need to be away from their small town and his need to stay with his family and the land. Meeting Cat again brought the undying flame within him and he intended to pursue and determined to never lose her again.

I was interested with the book from the blurb given and I do enjoy some of Cheyenne contemporaries. But this book weakness was the character development between Cat and Blake. It happened and suddenly they’re onto each other again like they never separated.

I do enjoy the other western Wild series that Cheyenne does, but the other series does have another focus in the story like border smuggling and law enforcement thing that provide a side story for the characters. This time, the emphasize is on drama that centered around Blake’s finding his true love again and the risk of losing his daughter’s custody. I do enjoy how that part of the story played out but Cat and Blake’s storylines itself seemed to be barren than the part about Demi.

I could say I was disappointed in this book but I did enjoy the story that centered around Demi that I was still in fifty-fifty with my perception of this book. I like it but not enough for me to immerse myself with the subsequent books in the series. Its still too vanilla despite the obvious explicitness of this genre. ( )