The ever-elusive 2 stars. You've earned it, book.

I've read worse books, but never one that annoyed me so much. First of all, this is insta-love at its worse. The two main characters meet, have a long night of (hot?) sex, then the next day are engaged to be married. And nobody has a problem with that. Her dad is overjoyed, her young daughter is excited to move into a trailer away from everything familiar, and his brothers are congratulating him at every turn. It's so ridiculously unrealistic, and it drives me nuts. And don't tell me that they loved each other in high school, because it's been a decade, a failed marriage for both of them, a career in Hollywood of all places, and a kid. People change, and these two people have no business jumping right back into things like they're still in high school.

Then there's the horribly convoluted plot. Nothing really ever happens, except for some drunk guy driving a semi truck into his cabin, which I think was supposed to serve as the climactic action? It gets a question mark, because there's not a second of worry that the characters will actually get hurt, there's no emotional turmoil, and they wanted to bulldoze the cabin anyway! Win-win! Grr.

Last but certainly not least, this is a ball of sickening fluff. It's like the author can't bear to write in any sort of struggles for her characters, and we the readers end up suffering for it. Everybody in this book is super rich, rich enough to just pack up and sell their cars, apartments, and belongings with no worry, and to bulldoze a cabin and immediately start putting in a house with absolutely no forethought. I usually don't have a problem with the rich hot guy trope, but this book really makes it sickening. And thanks author, we get that you like kids and animals, but does every woman in this book need to be barefoot and pregnant to feel happy? For god's sake, the book ends with an info dump about every single one of the Creed wives and their new babies' names and their happy children. There's nothing wrong with having kids in your epilogue, but this is a prime example of the wrong way to do it. Finally, the thing that bugs me the most - the "cowboy" culture. I'm from the high plains, I talk to real cowboys all the time and they DO NOT act like the Creed men. They don't jet off to become high-powered lawyers or movie stars and then decide that they miss the "big open Montana skies." If you want to write about cowboys, write them the right way.

This book is downright terrible, and I will absolutely never be reading anything by this author again. Now I need to go and find one of my old favorites to get this crap out of my system. ( )

This book wasn't as interesting as the previous two in the series. Tyler kinda got shafted. ( )

Tyler and Lily had a thing until Lily caught Tyler cheating on her with an older woman. Fast forward she's a widow with a daughter returning to town after her father had a heart attack. Tyler has family issues but he's returned to town to get back to his roots and she finds him on the road after his truck broke down. Some of the story elements can only happen in a romance novel but it was a sweet read, with hot chemistry.
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This is my first book by Linda Lael Miller.

I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I wasn’t expecting for our hero Tyler to get a free pass on what happened 13 years ago with Lily. Tyler is home to face his past and face the Creed demons that plague him.

The emotional development is non-exiting for our leads. Tyler was married, but his wife died. Lily was married too, but was getting a divorce when her husband died.

Tyler and Lily are back home for different reasons and meet up again. She still has feelings for him, first love, no one really gets over them. I couldn’t tell if Tyler ever cared for Lily or not, then and now. Back in high school he was dating Lily for several years. They never had sex during that time, yet at the same time he was dating Lily he was sleeping with a women 15 years his senior. Infidelity. Cheating. Big no no for me even if it did happen as teenagers. I expected their to be groveling, major groveling, and addressing this issue; between the characters. They don’t talk about the past, what happened in-between, then and now.

What they do is act like horny teenagers. We have the first "date" going out to dinner, but instead of dinner he says "let's just skip the dinner & get down to business". OMG!! And, what does she do, she agrees. Not once is his betrayal mentioned or remembered. These two have two dates and all they do is have sex. What the heck? And, the sex. It was unprotected. OMG!! Their is a brief mention that he says he’s clean and Lily thinks she can’t get pregnant; because her and her dead ex-husband had tried for years to have another kid, with no luck. That’s it. Then her mother-in-law called the next day and tells her about her ex-hubby’s secret vasectomy.. Uhhh!!

When they do sit and talk, it’s no big deal. No addressing any of the issues. As for his infidelity he says it was just sex with Doreen, nothing more. She just lets it slide. At this point I’m shaking my head and throwing my hands in the air. How in the world can that be it of the talk? How can she not care? Ahhh!! It clearly affected her life, with the distance her father put between them and that she only married to try and move on, but she didn’t truly love her ex-husband. Then their is a 13 year old kid that might or might not be Tyler’s from his affair with Doreen and Lily is like, A OK with this. WTF???

Then theirs the blatant flaunt of money and things that are nice and fancy. Family secrets that come out. So many little plot things going on with Tyler Creed and not all the plot things ever get resolved or completed.

Enough is enough! I really should have put this down, but I hit that 50% mark and was like well I’m this far, maybe, just maybe something will happen….

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