Light and Easy

 Part Time Cowboy by Maisey Yates 

The audiobook narrator did not do a male voice very well, so that wasn't great. However, I did enjoy her pacing. I do love a grumpy x sunshine so that was fun. However, I would have liked if they had made the ages of the characters known earlier because I spent a good portion of the book trying to figure out just how much of a gap there was between them. We know that Eli arrested her as a teenager, and I could have sworn it was originally said that she was 17 when the arrest happened, but later it was said that she was 18 because that night her father beat her so badly it ruptured her spleen and she had to have it removed and CPS couldn't do anything because she was an adult. So I would have preferred their ages be established sooner. It didn't matter for the bulk of the story, since she is 27 when the main story takes place, but since they reference their past it is relevant. He is a deputy sheriff, she is renting a house on his family's land and turning it into a B&B. They keep bumping into each other, mostly because his older bother, Connor, is too in his own grief to do the landlord duties and keeps pawning them off of Eli. Turns out, they also have chemistry. And so they decide to act on it, but keep it casual. Except, they can't keep it casual. But, neither of them is very good at feelings and that causes problems, especially when the Independence Day BBQ that she planned on his ranch leads to one of the barns burning down because some kids were playing with fireworks inside of it. Was it her fault? No. Does he blame her? Yes. Does she blame herself? Also yes. She does what she always does, packs up to leave. But this time, she takes time to think and he catches her before she can go, only she had decided to stick it out. They confess their love and he asks her to move in. It was cute, but not great.