My Thoughts on A Family for the Cowboy Cop for Tanya Agler

 

About:

To catch a thief

Or to capture a heart?

Denver detective Jase Virtue has one assignment: return to his hometown of Violet Ridge, catch an escaped bank robber, go back to Denver. Staying at Cassie O’Neal’s farm isn’t part of the plan. But the single mom and her two young children need protection—even if she is the robber’s half sister and suspected accomplice. Bonding with the O’Neals, and a sweet little hen, has Jase wondering if he can truly trust Cassie. Because she makes him long for the home and happily-ever-after he never thought he deserved.

My Thoughts:

Detective Jase Virtue has come back to his hometown with the express mission to capture and bring into custody Keith Yablonsky, who recently escaped prison. Jase is also looking for Keith's accomplice who he strongly suspects is Keith's sister, Cassie. Since Cassie just might be the accomplice, Jase heads to her farm in his hometown to set up surveillance and catch her in any wrongdoing. Problem is, she is scared of her brother and only wants to protect her two children along with their livelihood.

Cassie and Jase are no strangers. They were once school friends. However, that does not stop Jase's suspicions of Cassie at all. For whatever reason, Jase was convinced Cassie was guilty and he was going to stay close by, even helping out on the farm, until she slipped up. Throw in her two precocious kids and Jase will not help but fall in love with Cassie and her little family, if he can get over that he might just be wrong.

Cassie just wanted to stop living under the judgement of others for what her brother did and is doing. She thought that she had finally got past all that, until Jase comes and all her fears and insecurities revive again. 

This was a cute story, it did seem to take a little bit to get going. There was so much mistrust and judgement, at first coming from Jase, that he was hard to like at first. He does have things riding on this capture, so he was a bit dogged in his pursuit. Also, Cassie is divorced, which made the story a bit sad for me, but she is a single mother trying to make the best of life for her kids.

I was provided a copy of this novel from the author. I was not required to post a positive review and all views and opinions are my own.