Take Me, Cowboy is one deliciously fun and sexy addition to Maisey Yates’s Copper Ridge series. I love me a big strapping cowboy with a tendency to get all scowly faced when he doesn’t get what he wants. Or, in this case, when he does get what he wants. Because according to Chase McCormack, he shouldn’t be having these kind of feelings for his best friend Anna Brown. And she shouldn’t have started it all! Hell, they’d been best friends for fifteen years. He could talk to her about anything. Well, maybe not the rotating door of women he’s slept with. But ever since he and his brother Sam lost their parents in an accident when Chase was just sixteen, Anna has been there for him. He wouldn’t change that for the world. And if a friends to lovers thing didn’t work out, well he’d lose his best friend.

Anna barely remembers the mother who walked out on her family all those years ago. Raised by her older brothers because their father had no time or affection for any of them, Anna naturally grew up mostly boy. Her job, her passion, as a heavy equipment mechanic affords no use for girlie things. However, an invitation to an important charity fundraiser is exactly the thing she needs to help promote her new business. Problem one…she needs a date. Problem two…her brothers made her a bet she’d never find one.

When Chase hears of her dilemma he offers his dating services. Problem three…it has to be an honest to God date, not a pity date with your best friend. And when Chase has the brilliant idea that they actually date…you know, so everyone will believe they’re a real couple, Anna knows it’s a bad, bad idea. It’s a bad, bad idea because so far she’s been successful at squashing her lustful feelings for Chase. She’s well aware that she’s not the type of girl Chase falls into the sack with. Those girls wear short skirts and tight tops and twirl their hair around their finger while looking up at him with I’m easy written all over their faces. But just once she’d like to know what it feels like to kiss him, to touch that muscled chest, to let him…you know. Anna can’t even think about it! It’s too embarrassing! She can’t make any promises if he’s taking her out on dates and being affectionate, or whatever one does on a date. Whether it’s real or not.

Oh, these two! I loved Anna with her no-nonsense approach to everything. If only relationships were as easy as taking apart a tractor engine and putting it back together again. That, she knows how to do. So when Chase gives Anna lessons on how to act on a date, it’s hilarious. She gets frustrated, he gets frustrated. And then Chase gets turned on. When he sees her in a dress and heels…wow. Suddenly those feelings that he might want more than friendship are pounding down the door. The build up is slow but fun. There were definitely times both characters needed some sense knocked into them, but if they didn’t what fun would that be? It was just enough without going over the top.

I am a big fan of Maisey Yates’s style. She sets a casual pace with her stories yet I’m always glued to the page. The dialogue is witty and fun, tender and romantic, and has a way of resonating with me. Her heroes tend to be two steps away from curmudgeonly, but it’s usually because they’re trying hard to hide their feelings. Tough cowboys don’t have feelings. Her heroines are down-to-earth women who have insecurities we can all relate to. They mostly speak their mind and, if they don’t at the beginning you can bet they will by the end.

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