Jessica Peterson: Wyatt

 Lucky Rivers Ranch book 2 read 2025

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214037675

Sally is about to get everything she wants she's finally done with school she got her dream job in New York where she will be able to be challenged and continue to learn on the job as a highly skilled Veterinary Surgeon... only she has been staying at home with her parents in her childhood bedroom in her home town with all of her friends and the closer it gets to time to move the more anxious she feels about the situation, is this what she wants?  or is this her dad's dream for her?  

While working with her father (also a veterinarian) in town she has more time to realize how much she loves working near home and it doesn't hurt that she frequently comes in contact with her best friends since elementary school Wyatt... only problem is that he is still as hot as he was the last time she saw him and still out of her league, this one sided crush she's had on him for years is going to be the death of her.

Wyatt is a cowboy he loves Texas, he loves his job, he loves his home town and he loves working along side all of his brothers.  While he has been a ladies man and not one to settle into a relationship with just one girl (wouldn't want them to get the wrong idea) he lately has been wanting more to his life... he sees how happy his older brother Cash is since he found the love of his life and maybe he could have the same thing.  He's had a huge crush on his best friend Sally for a really long time but she is too good for him she needs more than a small town cowboy, she's going places and is going to be amazing in her career and he knows he would only hold her back he would never ask her to give up her dreams for him.

Sally has had a series of terrible boyfriends leading to her losing her confidence when it comes to men and dating and she just wants someone who she can be herself with she would love to have a fling with a hot cowboy while she's back in town before she goes to start her new job and has limited time for a love life.  She enlists her best friend Wyatt to help her... if he could just pretend to be dating her for a bit maybe she could get the confidence she needs to attract another guy.

Wyatt reluctantly agrees to this fake-dating situation only to quickly realize that he can't help her like she wants him to... if she is going to get with any cowboy in town it's going to be him it will be fine they can keep their feelings out of it have a "fling" for as long as Sally wants and then when she goes to New York he will let her go easy.

Naturally since they have both been friends forever and pining for each other in secret forever the line between fake and real gets erased pretty quickly.  But what will happen once the end of her time in town comes?  they both know that's looming before them and coming quicker than they like.  Sally would never ask Wyatt to leave his family and job he loves it in Texas, and Wyatt would never hold Sally back from her dreams.  

Sally also helps Wyatt open up about the loss of his parents at a young age which he has trouble doing with anyone else.  

Drama ensues when Sally's dad continues to "want better" for our girl... Will Sally be able to figure out what she wants to do with her life?  has she been so focused on what her dad felt her dreams should be that she hasn't really thought about what she wants her life to be?  

This was a cute Cowboy romance I was rooting for the lead characters fake relationship to finally turn real and I enjoyed the interactions with the side characters, with all the inner thoughts about how much they both had been into each other for years I felt myself saying "just tell each other already" multiple times.  

The book was pretty repetitive at times with the inner monologues between the characters.  I also felt that the end scene (which started in the end of the last book) where Sally's dad was holding Wyatt at gunpoint... that all felt glossed over pretty quickly like what?  that's not ok you shouldn't do that to someone even if the safety is on.  

The spicy scenes were spicy... but the dialogue became pretty cringe at times, yes we get it he's got a big hog but this whole scene was like his banana is too big and how is it ever going to fit... then she immediately will need advil for the soreness but is able to have sex with him 989 more times that week so it must have not led to her being that sore.  

I plan on reading the next in the series the end of this book set up the story for the next couple. 

*friends -->  More  *fake dating  *mutual pining  *Cowboy MMC  *Veterinarian FMC  *family drama 

 *Close family *Texas  *spice  *Western  *small town romance  *found family *lessons in love/flirting

*dual POV  *dirty talk  *story goes back and forth at times between the present and the past  

*death of MMC parents (in the past)