Review: Passionate Read!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2014
A child is the best thing that a parent can have but there is also enough room for a life time partner.  The only thing that she needs is to heal and he needs to believe that happily ever afters do exist.This is the first installment to “A Paint River Ranch” series and I have to say that I fell in love with these two characters well actually with three.  There was so much emotion going through me when I was reading this book I felt pain, sadness, confusion, happiness and most of all love.  From the moment that I read that there was a little footsteps down the hall and screamed “doggie” I knew that I was going to fall in love with Birdie.  There was Rylan and the emotional wreck that she was in I was trying to figure out what she was running away from and when I found out my heart was crushed.  Then finally Cole the man that held the family together, the person that took over the ranch when his father passed away, the devoted son, brother but most of all a devoted father.Rylan Frederickson needed to heal and after accepting a job over the phone she knows that this is her opportunity.  When everything goes wrong she ends up in a bar and low and behold the person that can take her to the ranch is there.  Only that he has been drinking but most of all he is a very handsome cowboy and there is no way she is going to let Cole Haywood drive.  Cole knows that he is being an ass but he doesn’t care he needs to quit looking and feeling things for Rylan.  He needs to remember that she is an employee and that getting involved with an employee is against the rules.  Cole needs to take care of the ranch, his mother but most of all his precious Birdie.As time goes by the feelings that they both have can’t be denied any longer.  Once they share that first kiss nothing is able to stop them.  They both know that they should but who the hell cares.  Rylan is able to open up to Cole and lets him know about her terrible past, the reason that she gets attorney mail.  He can’t believe what she has gone through not only what she went through with her husband but losing her daughter.  Rylan has blamed herself for the death of her daughter, there are so many what if’s, she should have left her husband only that he threatened her.  Cole has not told Rylan yet about his past and that’s never a good thing because his ex has been calling him.  When she finds out the specifics of how he got Birdie what will she do?  What will Cole do when Rylan can’t be a mother to Bridie because she Rachel can’t be replaced?  Will Cole lose Rylan because he can’t listen to what she has to say after a horrible accident involving Birdie?Tempting the Cowboy was such a wonderful read that I could not put it done not even for sleep.  I love Ms. Otto’s writing style and with how much passion she puts into her writing.  I like how the story began with that tension that said that something horrible happened to Rylan and how the passion between the two characters was going to explosive.  The storyline was great and the pace of the story was perfect.  The sexual tension between these two characters is hot and when they come together it’s full of passion.  It’s seems that both of them need healing because of their previous relationship and it seemed that they were healing each other.I recommend this read to all the readers that enjoy romance reads.  I can’t wait to read the next in this series.Thanks to NetGalley who provided me a copy of this ARC for an honest review.