Every good friend-to-lovers story hinges on THAT MOMENT.
You know the one.
It’s the moment that changes everything. The moment that blows up the fictions that the two people in question have been living under.
There’s no going back.
In The Cowboy’s Best Friend, this moment happens when Sierra Tate is celebrating the end of her not-so-great marriage. Without thinking, she runs to her longtime best friend, hugs him—and for some reason, gives him a kiss on the mouth.
It’s not a particularly passionate kiss. She doesn’t mean anything by it.
But it changes everything just the same.
Because Sierra is the only person in Cowboy Point—and possibly all of Marietta, if not the better part of Paradise Valley—who doesn’t know that her best friend, Boone Carey, has been in love with her for most of his life.
Pretty much since the very moment he laid eyes on her for the first time when they were in seventh grade.
Since then, he’s understood that the way he gets Sierra is by being her friend. Her rock. The way he figures it, that’s a pretty fantastic deal on its own. He handles his needs in private and gets the best of his friend when she needs him. He’s fine.
More than fine.
Boone has a lot going on in his life. He runs High Mountain Ranch with his brothers, the way Careys have been doing since their first ancestor turned up in Montana back in the Gold Rush days. He’s doing his best not to worry about his father, who told them all over a year ago that he had only a year to live. He’s navigating the change in their family because of that—who could imagine Zeke Carey anything but a titan?—as well as the sisters-in-law he’s gotten over the past year. Three sisters-in-law, two unexpected toddler nephews, and more on the way.
He’s also opened an artisan dairy in his small corner of the ranch, and a cultivated little farm to go with it. As far as he’s concerned, he has the best life imaginable. He gets to work with his hands in the dirt. He gets to work the land that’s his family’s legacy, out beneath that endless Montana sky.
The house he lives in, he built himself. Everything he has, he owns or shares ownership in.
Boone doesn’t have a single complaint.
Until Sierra changes everything with that kiss.
Because once things start between them, there’s no going back.
But when he warns her what might happen if she tears down the walls he’s been keeping high and solid between them—for her protection, not his—she goes for it anyway.
Even though Boone is pretty sure he was clear.
It’s never going to be one night with the two of them.
The only thing that’s going to happen between them is forever.
About the Author.
USA Today bestselling, multi-award-nominated, and critically-acclaimed author Megan Crane has written more than 150 books, and shows no sign of slowing down. She publishes romance as Megan Crane and M.M. Crane with an exciting backlist of women’s fiction, rom-coms, chick lit, and young adult novels. She’s also won a large and loyal fanbase as Caitlin Crews with Harlequin Presents, Harlequin Dare, Harlequin Historical, and contemporary cowboy books. And for paranormal fun, Megan partners with Nicole Helm to publish as Hazel Beck for her witchy rom-com novels.
Megan has a Masters and Ph.D. in English Literature, has taught creative writing classes in places like UCLA Extension’s prestigious Writers’ Program, and is always available to give workshops (or her opinion). She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her comic book artist husband, though, at any given time, she is likely to either be huddled in a coffee shop somewhere or off traveling the world. Preferably both.
Ryder Carey… isn’t. Not really.
I sometimes use the EnneaApp when creating characters. It’s similar to other personality tests but they have what they call nine ennea-types. Interesting to me is “childhood wound” of each ennea-type that is discussed.
