Taking Charge by Author Ruth Cardello

3 stars

This book was provided via NetGalley for an honest review.

This is book 4 in the Lone Star Burn series but can be read as a standalone. I enjoyed the writing and story told by Ruth Cardello. I do think I will have to read more books by her.

We meet Lucy Albright. She left her family's Texas ranch for life in the city. She always knew she belonged somewhere away from the ranch. But as life would have it, she finds herself back at home without her parents, having to keep the ranch going as a promise to her mom.

Lucy's brother has been at the ranch but left it in such disarray that Lucy is determined to make it work. She accepts a loan from the neighbor where the loan turns into a marriage proposal that Lucy accepts. But she knows she must end things before the "I Dos" as she does not love him. But when she ends things, he plans to make he pay for making him look like a fool. 

Lucy having learned the hardway to not allow any man help. They all seems to have their own agenda. She knows that she must start making some fast cash to make ends meet, so why not launch her own web based sex toy business? She can do this. She can do this alone. No man needed or so she thinks.

David Harmon is just a cowboy who's values are solid as the dirt he walks on. He knows that he would do anything to make sure Lucy and her ranch are ok. Even if he has to sit back and not touch her. He is more of a man than most. He has been in love with her since the first time he saw her. When there seems to be trouble brewing at Lucy's, David drops everything to go and help. 

But Lucy does not see it like that. She seems David as just another man trying to control her. As their attraction and relationship seems to heat up, Lucy starts to feel like maybe David is being truthful, only wanting the best for her.

As threats are made toward Lucy and her ranch, David and Lucy will stop at nothing to find who it is. They must learn to work as team to even the score. And that means Lucy will have to allow David into her personal space and share with him, her business that she has going. Things could get interesting.

End in the end, all is well on the ranch and Lucy finally finds a place to truly call home.