TITLE: No Going Back
AUTHOR: Janice Whiteaker
SERIES: Cross Creek Ranch
SERIES ORDER: 3
PUBLISHED DATE: 6/16/2023
GENRE: Cowboy Romance
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
CW/TW: References to spousal abuse, PTSD, and pregnancy complications
*This book is also Book 7 in Janice’s Cowboys of Moss Creek series that starts with her Cowboy Classifieds series.
BLURB:
Don’t fall for the sexy silver fox that just rolled into town.
Easier said than done.
Especially when he’s your new neighbor.
Dianna came to Moss Creek for a fresh start. To learn from the mistakes of her past.
But Griffin Fraley is testing her commitment to that task. Somewhere between those baby blue eyes and a set of hands she can imagine doing debaucherous things, her focus starts to shift.
And that’s before she ends up pantsless in the back room of her bakery discovering just how much those hands are really capable of.
But Griffin came to Moss Creek for a reason too—to build a relationship with the son he didn’t know he had—and he won’t let anything stand in the way of that. Not his past. Not his present.
And maybe not their future.
MY REVIEW:
DISCLAIMER: I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
I really enjoyed Griffin and Dianna’s love story! Once I started reading, I couldn’t stop! This was an emotional read! Griffin and Dianna’s pasts both have them weary of new relationships as it would require them to be vulnerable and possibly address issues that they didn’t want to address. But some relationships are worth it, such as Griffin and Dianna’s, and I loved watching them not only realize their own self-worth but also learn to be vulnerable with each other.
I love coming back to Moss Creek and I am so looking forward to what Janice has next up her sleeve with this series! I loved the addition of new characters and am looking forward to them reappearing and maybe even getting their own story! Snickerdoodles was also a fun addition, and I can’t wait to see if Janice adds any more interesting animal characters to her stories, like she does as Josie Watts in her Scandal in Sweet Side series!
I will say, if you haven’t read this series yet, you don’t HAVE to go back to the very beginning with the Cowboy Classifieds series, but you probably will get more out of this book if you read No Coming Back first as that is Troy (Griffin’s son) and Amelie’s story and they have a heavy presence in this book!
Thank you Janice and Julie for the advance copy!