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Rancher's Wild Secret & Hold Me, Cowboy

(Gold Valley Vineyards #1 included)

Maisey Yates (Goodreads Author)

4.18 · Rating details · 78 ratings · 8 reviews

He’s come to Gold Valley with a hidden agenda…

not to fall for his enemy’s daughter!

Emerson Maxfield is the perfect pawn for rancher Holden McCall’s purposes. She’s engaged to a man solely to win her father’s approval, and the sheltered beauty never steps out of line. Until one encounter changes everything. Now this good girl must marry Holden to protect her family—or t ...more

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Published October 22nd 2019 by Harlequin

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Nov 29, 2019 Jasmine from How Useful It Is is currently reading it

Rancher’s Wild Secret - 4 stars!

This book is my first adult romance read and it was great! Emerson's dad is funny with his comment on the pound sign instead of hashtags. My thought exactly when I first saw it years ago. I like the fast paced and easy to read writing style. Adult romance sure don't beat around the bushes. They go after what they want. It reminds me of why I prefer to read YA because I enjoyed the shyness and flirt. I like the forbidden love though the love and the sex happen pre ...more

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Nov 08, 2019 Zoe rated it really liked it

Spicy, engaging, and downright steamy!

Full review of both stories to follow shortly.

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Nov 07, 2019 Olivia rated it liked it

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3.5 stars

I have some mixed feelings about this book. It is definitely very, very steamy, but the first novel in it deals with some complicated issues in a way that made it hard for me to get on board (blackmail/control leading to marriage/intercourse). Anyway, I will briefly review each novel below.

RANCHER'S WILD SECRET primarily follows Emerson, the social media/PR ambassador for her family's winery. She is engaged to a man with whom she has no chemistry in a business match for her father. Whoe 3.5 stars

I have some mixed feelings about this book. It is definitely very, very steamy, but the first novel in it deals with some complicated issues in a way that made it hard for me to get on board (blackmail/control leading to marriage/intercourse). Anyway, I will briefly review each novel below.

RANCHER'S WILD SECRET primarily follows Emerson, the social media/PR ambassador for her family's winery. She is engaged to a man with whom she has no chemistry in a business match for her father. Whoever she marries will be given a share of the winery equal to hers, and this is a big deal considering the success of the winery. When she runs into a ranch hand, Holden, she wants him and goes after him for a one-night stand (which is not a problem, considering her fiance is sleeping around).

She is then shocked when it turns out Holden is actually a wealthy man on a mission of revenge. Her father had slept with his younger sister who was vulnerable. After she became pregnant, he asked her to terminate and left her. She did not but had a late-term miscarriage that left her emotionally and mentally devastated. She has been in an institution recovering since. After Holden found out that whoever Emerson marries would get a share of the winery, he hatched a new plan- force her to marry him and get the shares or expose her father in the wake of the #metoo movement.

To save the business she agrees, but as they proceed, she begins to fall in love with him (stockholm?). The whole blackmail marriage and circumstances around the father seemed too much for me, personally. I felt that her father should have had more consequences and hate that it wasn't so much for someone who was repeatedly sleeping with employees and very young women under duress that needed NDAs. I would have liked their relationship to be something separate. However, they do have a lot of chemistry which heats up the pages.

For the second book, HOLD ME, COWBOY, this one was cleaner. Sam and Madison have been enemies for a long time. When they are snowed in together and Madison's plans to end her 10-year dry streak are spoiled (by the man not being able to get to her), they decide to turn all that hate into passion. This was a much simpler plot, loads of chemistry, and a whole lot of bickering out of that I hate-you-because-I-love-you style of passion. This was an overall engaging read, even though they each have to work through their own baggage. While a simpler story than the first, it was in some ways more rewarding due to the simplicity and steamy nature which was unspoiled by too complicated plots.

Would recommend these if you are looking for very steamy reads and could ignore plot difficulties as mentioned above. Please note that I received a review copy. All opinions are my own. ...more

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Nov 03, 2019 Katie Mettner rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Rancher's Wild Secret definitely kept me captivated for the whole of the story. Emerson is a 'yes, daddy, whatever you need, daddy' kind of girl. Her relationship with her father is one she thinks she needs to breathe, including agreeing to marry a man she doesn't love (or even sleep with) for the betterment of their family winery. She is willing to do anything to improve their standing for the family winery, until a new ranchhand shows up in the vineyard and she can't stop thinking about him.

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Nov 25, 2019 Living My Best Book Life rated it really liked it

Hot and steamy. Rancher's Wild Secret is a really enjoyable romance about a woman marrying a man her father doesn't approve of. It's sexy and unexpected and I loved it.

Emerson is always looking to please her father. She is even engaged to a man that she has no feelings for. When she meets a ranch hand named Holden, he takes her breath away. He is interesting, hot, and dominating.

They have a mutual attraction but Holden is keeping a huge secret. After a night of passion, he reveals his true inte ...more

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Nov 07, 2019 Jane rated it it was amazing

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Rancher's Wild Secret is another great read by Maisey Yates. It is fun to watch Emerson Maxfield and Holden McCall as they travel a bumpy road to find their happy ever after.

Hold Me, Cowboy, the second story in this book, is a reissue by Maisey Yates. I had read it previously and it was even better the second time around. I never hesitate to pick up a book by Maisey Yates as she never lets me down. ...more

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Feb 05, 2021 Beth rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Holden and Emerson. He was so much like her father. A controlling jerk.

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Sep 21, 2019 Heather andrews rated it it was amazing

Holden is quite honest, "...I try to make my *** life no one’s business but mine and the lady I’m naked with.” Holden tends to point out obvious things, “you hate me so much you climbed on me at least five times last night.” I liked this book, I liked Holden. ...more

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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Maisey Yates lives in rural Oregon with her three children and her husband, whose chiseled jaw and arresting features continue to make her swoon. She feels the epic trek she takes several times a day from her office to her coffee maker is a true example of her pioneer spirit. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three Maisey sold her first book.

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