Ripe For Reader: Blog Tour - THE RESTLESS COWBOY by Megan Ryder

Title: The Restless Cowboy (Granite Junction Book 2)

Author: Megan Ryder

Genre: Small Town Western Romance

Release Date: April 27, 2021

Free—from family, duty, and responsibility.

Cam Miller has spent most of his life bound by choices others made for him. He did what had to be done to provide for his little sister, and he doesn’t regret that. But now, with her off to college, he can finally put ranching behind him and pursue the life he’s always dreamed of... far from Granite Junction. But after one night of passion comes back to haunt him, he fears his hard-won freedom is only temporary . . .

Independent—from family, relationships, and matters of the heart.

Molly Brennan was living her best life as a rodeo trick rider until a failed marriage forced her from the arena. Now she’s perfectly fine running her own hair salon and raising her daughter solo. She doesn’t need a man, but what could it hurt to indulge in a little no-strings fun with a sexy cowboy?

When Molly realizes she’s pregnant, she pulls herself up by her bootstraps. She's handled things this far on her own and she can do it again, although she’s finding it isn’t so easy to let Cam go. But Cam’s not the kind of man who shirks responsibility. Finding himself torn between a woman who feels like home and his need to break free, where will Cam’s heart lead him?

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5 Stars

by Erin Prentice

Cam Miller was finally free! He sold his family ranch and can now escape his family's troubled past. His sister is off at culinary school so there is nothing holding him in Granite Junction he can finally follow his dream in Wyoming owning a business making leather pieces.

Molly a single mom who owns a salon in Granite Junction has some big news, after a few fun nights with Cam this past summer she is pregnant. She struggles with telling Cam because she does not want to hold him back from leaving but feels it's the right thing to do. Molly is scared to let anyone in as her 8 year old daughter Riley's dad abandoned them after she was born to compete in Rodeos.

Cam is excited and a little scared himself to be a dad, afraid he will turn out like his father. He decides to come home to Granite Junction each weekend to help Molly with her pregnancy and be there for her, but it is an 8 hour drive and he is exhausted he knows he will have to make a decision about his new business and involvement with Molly and the baby.

He can see a future with her but can he have both? Will their chemistry and passion be enough to bring them together?

These characters drew me in very early and I found myself flipping pages to see where they go.

*** Advanced copy provided in exchange for an honest review. ***

She nipped the tip of his thumb that was still idly stroking her lower lip, then she soothed it with a gentle kiss. “Neither of us were ready for anything before now. Heck, we’re not ready for anything now either but here we are.”

“Here we are,” he echoed.

She cupped his cheek with one hand and leaned in, lightly brushing his lips with hers, the pain in his soul crying out to hers for comfort, for soothing, and the woman inside of her responded the best way she knew how. He remained still under her kiss, passive, almost frozen in place as if unsure how to respond. She understood his reaction, as torn as she was by their situation, circumstances that had occurred beyond their expectations, that had somehow brought these two lonely souls together. Maybe they could help each other heal in the dark moments of the night.

She stroked his lips with her tongue, a little bolder, and he groaned. “Molly, you don’t know what you’re doing to me.”

She gave a husky, low laugh and let her hand settle on the tense muscles of his abdomen. The hard ridges of his muscles jumped under her fingers and she gently caressed him. “Are you distracted yet?”

“From what?”

“Mission accomplished,” she murmured against his lips.

Ever since Megan Ryder discovered Jude Deveraux and Judith McNaught while sneaking around the “forbidden” romance section of the library one day after school, she has been voraciously devouring romance novels of all types. Now a romance author in her own right, Megan pens sexy contemporary novels all about family and hot lovin’ with the boy next door. She lives in Connecticut, spending her days as a technical writer and her spare time divided between her addiction to knitting and reading.