Downpour by Maggie Gates is now live!
Ray
Rule #1 of almost dying: Make sure someone knows your passwords. It’s hard to cancel your phone plan if you’re dead.
Rule #2 of almost dying: Make sure your house is clean before you walk up the steps to the pearly gates. It makes selling off your life easier.
Back-up plans are for people who plan on losing.
All it took was eight seconds for me to win the biggest competition of my life, and one second to lose everything except that championship buckle.
I had left my family’s cattle ranch at eighteen with no intention of ever coming back for good.
Now I was back, stuck in a wheelchair with a beautiful disaster attempting to burn my house down.
Brooke
Rule #1 of trying to not get fired: Don’t piss off the grumpy bull rider.
Rule #2 of trying to not get fired: When you do get fired, keep your chin up. The grumpy bull rider was hot.
It was just a little fire. Tiny, even. But that didn’t change the fact that Ray Griffith didn’t want me anywhere near him.
But we came to an agreement: I ignore him, and he doesn’t fire me.
Easy, right? Not so much when we can’t keep our hands off each other.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
Downpour is the first book I’ve read by Maggie C. Gates, and I just loved Ray and Brooke’s story!
Ray was a champion bull rider whose world shattered in a matter of 8 seconds when he was tossed off a bull and paralyzed. Needless to say, he has not been handling the change in his life very well, and has isolated himself from his family and the world over the past 18 months. He’s fired home health aides one after another, determined to live a life of solitude. And that’s when plucky heroine Brooke enters the picture, just one more mistake away from being fired from her job.
Of course, Ray wants nothing to do with Brooke. But with sheer determination to make it to her next paycheck, she just plows through in taking care of grumpy Ray. The girl is a hot mess, but she is kind and sweet and a beacon of sunshine – and her sunny demeanor eventually wears down our grumpy hero. I loved how she simply understood him. She was patient with him, and somehow never made him feel like he was “less than” just because he was in a wheelchair.
I loved the metamorphosis that Ray went through thanks to their friendship and how he eventually trusted her to hold his heart. That’s not to say it was easy for these two: Any kind of personal relationship was forbidden due to the nature of their aide-client contract, so they kept things a secret… which led to miscommunication between them and some hurt feelings. Brooke never tried to “fix” him as their relationship deepened, and being with her made him want a life for himself that he never envisioned having after his accident.
I also thought the family dynamics between the Griffin brothers (and their wives and Ray and his nieces) played into this story nicely as a secondary plot. Add in the spice between Ray and Brooke, and Downpour was a perfect read!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet Maggie Gates
Author Maggie Gates writes raw, relatable, romance novels packed full of heat and humor. Maggie calls North Carolina home. In her spare time she enjoys daydreaming about her characters, jamming to country music, and eating all the barbecue and tacos she can find! Her Kindle is always within reach due to a love of small town romances that borders on obsession.
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