Colt (Deluxe Edition): 1

Colt (Double U Ranch, Book 1) — Deluxe Limited Edition

Author: Jessica Peterson

Genre: Contemporary Romance / Cowboy Romance / Small-Town Romance / Single Dad Romance

Book Rating: ⭐ 9/10 (Estimated)

Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 (Estimated)

Genre

She's a city girl with big dreams. He's a grumpy Texas cowboy with a broken heart. And his adorable six-year-old son might just be the reason neither of them can walk away.

Lainey Brown has absolutely no business being on a ranch.

She's a city girl through and through.

She likes her life in Austin.

She knows her way around a branding campaign far better than a cattle pasture.

And the closest she wants to get to cowboy life is watching it from a comfortable distance.

But desperate times call for desperate career moves.

When an opportunity arises to rebrand the legendary Wallace Ranch, Lainey sees her chance to get her professional life back on track.

A fresh project.

A fresh start.

And hopefully, a quick return to the city where she belongs.

There's just one problem.

Colton Wallace.

The ranch's infuriatingly handsome foreman.

A hardworking cowboy with a reputation for doing things his way.

A man who has spent years protecting his family's legacy.

And someone who makes it painfully clear that Lainey isn't welcome.

Colt doesn't need a city girl showing up with fancy ideas and telling him how to run his ranch.

He doesn't need someone disrupting the life he's worked so hard to build.

And he definitely doesn't need the distraction of a beautiful, outspoken woman who challenges him at every turn.

Because Colt Wallace has already loved and lost.

After losing his wife, he's dedicated himself to two things.

His six-year-old son.

And the ranch he's determined to preserve for the next generation.

He's built a life around responsibility, routine, and keeping his heart safely out of reach.

Love isn't part of the plan anymore.

Especially not with a woman who has every intention of leaving.

But Lainey Brown has a way of turning his carefully ordered world upside down.

She's stubborn.

Creative.

Unapologetically herself.

And completely unimpressed by his brooding cowboy attitude.

The woman who was supposed to be a temporary inconvenience is becoming impossible to ignore.

Their first conversations are filled with arguments.

Their opinions clash.

And neither is particularly interested in admitting the other might have a point.

But beneath the bickering, something unexpected begins to grow.

Respect.

Attraction.

And the kind of chemistry that makes even the most stubborn cowboy forget his own rules.

Then there's Colt's little boy.

The one person Lainey never expected to fall for.

Sweet, innocent, and impossible not to love, his son begins finding a place in her heart before she even realizes what's happening.

Suddenly, the ranch doesn't feel quite so temporary.

The quiet Texas evenings start feeling like home.

And the grumpy foreman who once wanted her gone?

He's beginning to look an awful lot like the man she never knew she needed.

Colt notices the changes, too.

The way Lainey fits into his world.

The way she brings new energy to the ranch.

And the way her presence makes him imagine a future he thought he'd lost forever.

For the first time in years, he's beginning to want something for himself.

Something beyond duty.

Beyond responsibility.

Beyond simply surviving the heartbreak of his past.

He wants her.

But wanting Lainey and keeping her are two very different things.

She has a career waiting in Austin.

He has a son and a ranch that need him.

And neither planned on building a future together.

Can a city girl who never wanted ranch life find everything she's been missing beneath the Texas sky?

And can a widowed cowboy risk opening his heart when losing someone again might be the one thing he can't survive?

As their professional partnership turns into something far more personal, Lainey and Colt must decide whether the lives they've carefully planned are worth holding onto.

Or whether the greatest love stories begin when everything goes completely off-script.

She came to save his ranch's reputation. She never expected to become the reason he believed in love again.

Heartwarming, steamy, and filled with irresistible cowboy charm, Colt delivers a swoony Texas ranch romance featuring a grumpy widowed single dad, a spirited city-girl heroine, an adorable six-year-old boy, enemies-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, and a love story about second chances, family, and finding home where you least expect it.

He built his life around protecting his legacy. She might just become the most important part of it.

Tropes / Mood

Cowboy Romance • Single Dad Romance • Widowed MMC • Grumpy × Sunshine • City Girl × Cowboy • Enemies to Lovers • Workplace Romance • Forced Proximity • Small-Town Romance • Ranch Romance • Opposites Attract • Second Chance at Love • Protective MMC • Strong-Willed FMC • Adorable Kid • Found Family • He Falls First Energy • Slow-Building Attraction • Witty Banter • Professional Rivals • Workplace Tension • Family Legacy • Emotional Healing • Love After Loss • Grumpy Cowboy • Texas Setting • Close-Knit Family • Unexpected Love • Fish Out of Water • Career vs. Love • Single Parent Romance • Swoony Moments • Emotional Vulnerability • Small-Town Charm • Spicy Contemporary Romance (Estimated)