Blurb
When Sunshine Patterson loses her Chicago home, job and boyfriend in one day, she needs a backup plan, fast. Luckily her Aunt Cecily has provided her with the perfect combination living and restaurant space to start over. Even though the building is located in small town Chance Creek, Montana, Sunshine is certain it’s only a matter of time before she’s back to take the big city by storm. When she arrives in Chance Creek, however, she gets a surprise. Her restaurant space—and apartment—are occupied by a rival to her inheritance: the incredibly sexy, incredibly wrong for her, Cole Linden.
Cole’s been struggling to save his family’s holdings for far too long. The indoor rifle range he inherited from his father barely pays its rent, but it’s all that’s keeping his other concerns—two apartment houses—afloat. If he was smart, he’d walk away from all of it and start over, but if he does, several dozen of Chance Creek’s inhabitants will find themselves without a home. He thought Cecily meant to leave him the range building in her will. Instead she’s set him up in a four-month-long competition with her big-city niece to see who will win the place. A niece whose knockout looks are making it damn hard for him to concentrate on the job at hand.
Sunshine can’t believe she’ll have to open a vegan restaurant in a rifle-range waiting room, and she can’t believe she’ll have to share her apartment with Cole, either. Cole can’t believe his friends are falling over themselves to help Sunshine succeed—and get a date with her.
Now the competition is getting hot, but the sparks flying between them are even hotter. Can Cole and Sunshine find a way they both can win?
Review
In the prequel to the Cowboys of Chance Creek series, vegan chef Sunshine Patterson has inherited a building from her beloved late aunt Cecily, but she never expected her dream to open her own café to hinge on a few daunting stipulations in the woman’s will.
Cole Linden runs an indoor rifle range and lives above the business in a small apartment. He expected to inherit the building from his landlady, Cecily, but then learns he must compete with Cecily’s niece in order to have the building. Worse, he has to live with the woman, and she’s the hottest lady he’s ever seen. Can he keep his hands to himself? It’s a battle of the sexes, and only one of them can win in this messed-up contest—right?
I loved this book! I haven’t read many enemies-to-lovers stories in a while, so Sunshine and Cole’s rivalry hit the spot for me. I laughed out several times and kept rooting for them to work through their issues. Both characters are flawed, which made them likable and relatable.
Cole’s friends are a hoot, and I look forward to reading how each of those sexy cowboys gets taken down a notch or two.
I enjoyed Ms. Seton’s smooth writing style, and I’ll definitely read more of her books.
5 Stars
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