


However, the biggest conflict in the book is the same reason I wanted to kick him. He is a nice guy, determined to do the right thing and run his ranch the way his father would have. I liked Ava- she is a strong and practical woman who puts her son first but is not ready to stop doing what she loves, what she is good at. There are bits of the cowboy, single parent, small town, and friend's sibling tropes but they all seem to blend together nicely without any one of them feeling overplayed or less than organic in the story. Wrangling His Best Friend's Sister is a multi trope romance. And if he fails to see the light, he's going to lose the love of his life. In the end, Branson will have to face tough truths about himself, his ranch, and his relationship. As personnel issues lead to personal pleasure between them, Ava's big city dream drifts away, replaced by visions of a family in the country. He'll fix his personnel problem, and she'll write an article about it. She needs to get out of her parents' house, and Branson needs her help interviewing his ranch hands. No, he'd thought of her in other hard situations, but they usually involved the dark of night and his great big bed.

However, he wasn't thinking of his best friend's little sister when it came to hard labor. He's the owner of a profitable ranch on the brink of expansion and is now looking for a few good ranch hands to help him out.

The only problem is…what jobs are available in her one-horse town? Branson Beckett is successful by most measures of the word. If she can just get enough money to tide her over while she pitches an article to an even better big-city paper, Ava feels she can get back on track. Now Ava is living in her childhood home again, without prospects, but not without hope. After her husband's death, her life in the city became impossible, and a crisis with her young son caused her to lose her job as a reporter. Wrangling His Best Friend's Sister is the first book in the Beckett Brothers series by Leslie North.
