Review: The Bride Wore Red Boots by Lizbeth Selvig (Seven Brides for Seven Cowboys #2)

Note: This ARC was provided by Avon Books via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.

Everything appears to be going according to plan in Dr. Amelia Crockett's life...until an expected promotion is given to someone else, leaving the thirty-two-year-old surgeon shocked and confused. She makes her way back home to Wyoming to be with her mother and sisters and finds herself thawing toward the man who always seems to rile her up--patient advocate and former lieutenant Gabriel Harrison. With Mia and Gabe calling a truce, their unexpected camaraderie leads to something more. They work together to help out a group of young war veterans that Gabe has taken under his wing. But with her job waiting for her in New York and the arrival of a ten-year-old boy and his cat into her life, Mia will have to decide if she's going to stick to her long-held plans or if it may finally be time to come up with a new one with Gabe. 

The Bride Wore Red Boots is the second novel in the Seven Brides for Seven Cowboys contemporary romance series from author Lizbeth Selvig. Amelia Crockett is the oldest among her sisters and has always been the one who had a plan and stuck by it. When her plan for career advancement doesn't go her way, a return to Wyoming becomes exactly what she needs, providing support for her still recovering sister Joely as well as needing the support of her mother and sisters, even though she didn't really realize it was something she already had. There's also Gabriel Harrison with whom she has an almost adversarial non-relationship, but things surprisingly improve between them and soon they become allies that begin to have feelings for each other. If there was one couple well-suited for each other, it would be Mia and Gabe.

After Mia's career plans are put on pause and Gabe's experimental project involving eight former military men suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder is threatened to end up in limbo, things vastly improve between the two. They're both focused individuals but behind the seemingly ambitious personas they present, they both have very caring hearts, especially when it comes to Mia's family and Rory Beltane and the men who are part of Gabe's project. I loved these two together and they definitely inspired one another to think outside the box and realize that there's so much more that they can offer one another and the people around them. Even with their growing attraction and feelings toward each other, I appreciated that there was no rush to intimacy, but instead, we see them making their way through various stages of it.

The Seven Brides for Seven Cowboys series is quickly becoming one of my current favorites, with each new addition leaving me happily satisfied while eagerly awaiting which Crockett sister gets their story told next and with whom they'll end up with. Author Lizbeth Selvig has proven twice over that she's able to create individual love stories for each sister while still being able to keep the theme of family an integral part of it. Just like with Harper Crockett and Cole Wainwright's, Mia Crockett and Gabe Harrison's love story left me with a heart thumping happily and a smile on my face. Theirs was a story that proved that life doesn't always go as planned, and more often than not, that can be a very good thing, almost like a blessing in disguise. I adored The Bride Wore Red Boots and I hope you will too. This second book gets five stars. ♥

Release Date: 01 September 2015

Date Read: 28 August 2015

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