Title: Her Forever Cowboy
Author: Danae Little
Date: 2019
Quote: "Was it really too much to ask him to play with their son?"
She married the cowboy of her dreams, a few years before this novelette starts. They have a two-year-old who's pulling down her stretch-waist postnatal pants while she's trying to start the turkey. Baby, postnatal chronic fatigue, and the tendency of married life to start to feel real, have come between the couple; the stress of the family holiday party brings them close to a quarrel. She drives out into the snow to pick up the packaged eggnog he craves, wrecks the car, and wakes up in the hospital thinking she's there to give birth to the two-year-old. The year is 2019, she confidently tells the nurse. The year is 2021.
We know it really was 2019 because there's no mention of how COVID panic would have been affecting the hospital in 2021.
Anyway this is a sweet romance. A police officer who's always wanted Noel, the wife, for himself wants to believe that Dave, the cowboy, had nobbled the brakes because he was going to leave Noel for another woman. Noel doesn't know whether that's a valid theory or not. Instead of getting angry and telling Noel she's disloyal or "being unreasonable" or projecting her own bad faith onto him, Dave does the detective work to convince Noel that he's innocent. That Dave is capable of thinking as rationally about the matter as Noel is, instead of blowing up in an angry tantrum, proves that he's a keeper. Baby is about to become a big brother at the end of the book.
If you're attracted to reasonable, intelligent men, you'll want this book and you'll want to check out the series that follows it.
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