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Review: Hopelessly in Love (Loveland Ranch #2) by Stacy Travis


Hopelessly in Love (Loveland Ranch #2) by Stacy Travis is LIVE NOW!

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Tropes:

🤠🩷Small Town
🤠🩷 Hot Cowboy/City Girl
🤠🩷 Single Dad
🤠🩷 Fake Engagement
🤠🩷 Grumpy/Sunshine
🤠🩷 Slow Burn
🤠🩷 Found Family


Blurb
My first mistake was kissing a hot cowboy.

My second was agreeing to be his fake fiancée to save his handsome hide in a custody battle.

My third…well, there’s still time…

Single dad Luke Reilly doesn’t trust women who leave for greener pastures. He’s fiercely protective of his four-year-old son and even more protective of his own heart.

But then he met me, or more accurately, my lips…

I’m a free-spirited city gal, newly unemployed and in desperate need for an adventure. Between renovating the dilapidated ranch I inherited with my sisters, the last thing I need is a broody cowboy, even if he is the most gorgeous man I’ve ever seen.

But when Luke asks me for a quick favor: block him from view of his vindictive ex, I do one better and plant a kiss right on his lips.

His response? Introducing me as his fiancée. Now I’m fake-engaged to a grumpy single dad who seems more irritated by me than grateful for the favor.

But his little boy wins me over, and long afternoons of babysitting lead to longer nights of getting to know Luke Reilly. Photo shoots and fake kisses to document our “relationship” start to feel dangerously real.

Pretty soon, my body can’t tell the difference–and neither can my heart.

When the call of a fresh adventure beckons, I’m tempted to protect myself and leave this town in the dust.

Because I think I’ve just made my third mistake—falling hopelessly in love.

MY REVIEW


Callie's a wanderer, a rolling stone who doesn't put down roots. But when her sisters need help at their ranch, of course she comes home to help. And it's where she meets a gorgeous cowboy who asks her for one little fake engagement to help him with his custody pursuit. Can a sunshiney free spirit and a grumpy single dad make a fake engagement into a real love story?


I do so love me a grumpy/sunshine couple. Luke's grump is definitely grumpy, but it was obvious that grump was no match for the sunshine that was Callie. She teased him, she got under his skin, and her warmth brought out his mushy side that not many got to see aside from his adorable son, Scout. I loved being back on Loveland Ranch, seeing Callie with her sisters, and most of all, reading as this sweet couple fell so hard for each other even though they started off as a fake engagement.

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