I’m not too big of a fan of the secret baby trope. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in this series, A True Cowboy Christmas, I am not familiar enough with this author yet to know how she handles such things. Rest assured, this is not a tradition secret baby story. As the book description states, Hannah truly never meant to hide their child from Ty.

The way Ty reacts to Hannah whenever they’re near one another is great. Here’s this strong and tough cowboy, who hasn’t even admitted to his family how severe his head injury was in his last rodeo appearance, unable to control his visceral reaction to this woman. A beautiful woman, to be sure. But also a woman he cannot remember. So the fact that his body somehow seems to remember even if his brain doesn’t really took this narrative to a wonderful place for me.

Hannah has so many reasons to tread lightly when it comes to Ty. I don’t agree with all of her decisions, especially once she knew about Ty’s amnesia. At the same time I can’t really fault her for those decisions either. She’s human and therefore has her own baggage that gets in the way when trying to make emotional decisions. While actively reading this book and being immersed in the story there were times I felt it was taking too long. Not the overall story, but the reveals. Be it the truth about Ty, the truth about their marriage, or the truth about Jack. Sometimes I just wanted the characters to spit it out already! Now, in hindsight, I feel the story played out as it should. I don’t know why, I’m sure it has to do with the fact that I can be quite impatient in life.

Although I’m a jeans and t-shirt and no make-up type of woman, I appreciated the author keeping Hannah a rodeo queen. And having Ty like that aspect of Hannah. To be clear, Ty found Hannah attractive no matter what she was wearing and how much makeup was on her face. But he appreciated the overall beauty queen look. A lot of stories almost make fun of a woman who wears rhinestones and big hair and make that aspect of a character a detriment to their personality. The author embraced that part of Hannah’s personality and let her be who she was meant to be.

Ty and his brothers have a hard time communicating. They seem to have an even harder time with being honest with each other. They were all pigeon-holed, first by their father and then by their town, and seem to fall back into those positions whenever they’re together…even if those positions aren’t who they really are in their life otherwise. Ty and Gray have come a long way, but still have far to go. Hopefully, when youngest brother Brady gets his HEA the brothers will have learned to talk things out more productively and more often. I’ll keep enjoying this journey while they try to grow.

**I received an ARC of this book courtesy of Net Galley and the publisher. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and given freely**

This review can also be found at All In Good Time.