Summer Nights with a Cowboy: A Kittredge Ranch Novel

by Caitlin Crews

Overview

USA Today bestselling author Caitlin Crews returns with Summer Nights with a Cowboy, another emotional romance in her stunning cowboy series Kittredge Ranch….

He doesn’t believe in love…

Traveling nurse Janie Atwood has come to Cold River to uncover old family secrets and maybe, if she’s lucky, find a new home. That the gorgeous, glowering sheriff next door thinks her caring for his elderly neighbor is a nefarious scheme is a bonus. Having never been anything but a good girl, Janie finds Zack Kittredge’s simmering suspicion an excellent reason to try being a little dangerous instead…

She doesn’t believe in squandering it…

Sheriff Zack Kittredge is okay with being… intense. He takes his loner status as seriously as he takes his responsibilities to protect Cold River. And he thinks cheerful Janie might be a threat to the town. But the more he gets to know her, the more he faces the truth—she’s brighter than sunshine and he’s like a moth to her flame. When Janie suggests he could use a few charm school lessons, he surprises them both by accepting. He doesn’t need help. But it’s clear he might need her…

Because the only thing hotter than the summer sun in the Rockies is the forbidden passion that burns between them…

“This steamy tale proves opposites attract.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on All Night Long with a Cowboy

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250750020
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/29/2022
Series:	Kittredge Ranch , #3
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	142,673
Product dimensions:	4.60(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

USA Today bestselling, RITA-nominated, and critically-acclaimed author Caitlin Crews has published over one hundred books, including Frenemies, Princess from the Past, and A Royal Without Rules, many of which were written under the name of Megan Crane. These days her focus is on contemporary romance in all its forms, from small town heat to international glamor, cowboys to bikers to military men, and beyond. She has taught creative writing classes at UCLA Extension, leads occasional workshops, and attempts to make use of the MA and PhD in English Literature she received from the University of York in York, England. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with a husband who draws comics and animation storyboards, and their menagerie of ridiculous animals.

Editorial Reviews

★ 01/24/2022

Crews polishes off her steamy Kittridge Ranch trilogy with this breathless and arousing tale of old secrets and new beginnings (after All Night Long with a Cowboy). Traveling nurse Janie Atwood ostensibly arrives in Cold River, Colo., to care for octogenarian Damaris Gardner, but she has an ulterior motive: investigating her possible connection to one of the town’s founding families. Drop-dead gorgeous Sheriff Zack Kittridge, who lives like a monk in Cold River while taking his (admittedly “a little bit dirty”) pleasures outside the county to avoid gossip, is distrustful of her from the start. Gradually, however, his suspicions that Janie’s taking advantage of Damaris dissipate and the less experienced Janie’s fear that all men will forever see her as a kid sister dissolves in the face of his interest in her. Their mutual desire swells until Zack wants to “bathe” in her and Janie feels “plugged into an electric outlet.” In Zack, Crews handily delivers Damaris’s definition of a perfect man: “a gentleman on the street but a cowboy in the sheets.” It’s not all blistering heat, however; subplots about Damaris’s feelings on aging, Zack’s adulterous father, and Zack’s brothers and friends helping him to reestablish his family ranching ties add depth. This lusty romance is sure to fulfill some fantasies. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

"This [...] romance is sure to fulfill some fantasies." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Summer Nights with a Cowboy

“This steamy tale proves opposites attract.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on All Night Long with a Cowboy

"The romance is red-hot. Fans will rejoice that Crews has two more rowdy Kittredge brothers to pair off in future installments." - - Publishers Weekly on Secret Nights with a Cowboy

"Romance fans will eagerly devour this high-heat love story." - Publishers Weekly, starred review on The Last Real Cowboy

"A thoroughly entertaining and deftly crafted romance novel by an expert in the genre." - Midwest Book Review on The Last Real Cowboy

From the Publisher

02/04/2022

Klutzy and charming eldercare nurse Janie Atwood arrives in the small town of Cold River looking for answers and a place to heal from the loss of the grandparents who raised her. A mysterious letter inspires her to dig into the history of the town, but this brings her to the attention of the wary Sheriff Zack Kittredge. The chaos surrounding Janie is exactly what Zack has been avoiding his whole life, so when he finds himself inexplicably drawn to and constantly surprised by her, he begins to question his past decisions. The grumpy sheriff is forced to examine his decades-long feud with his father, his complicated relationship with the family ranch, and why he never sought a relationship with a woman in town until Janie stumbled into his life. When honor and history collide, Janie and Zack must look deeper into who they are and see if their relationship will survive the summer. VERDICT In the third entry in the "Kittredge Ranch" series, Crews creates a deeply emotional and family-oriented love story filled with great chemistry and good steam.—Jenna Harmison

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