Alyssa Downing came to Bluestem, Nebraska, hoping three months in a small town might help her remember how to breathe.After losing her fiancé, Trevor, she has spent years holding tightly to the life she lost. A temporary job at the Bluestem Gazette seems like a safe place to start over — quiet streets, friendly faces, a room at the Whitemore Hotel, and just enough distance from Chicago to let her heart rest.Then she meets Riley Manchester.Riley is a rodeo cowboy with a stubborn streak, a sharp tongue, and a habit of showing up exactly when Alyssa least wants to need help. He is also the man who pulls her out of danger after one very bad decision lands her inside the rodeo arena with a bull named Widowmaker.Alyssa is determined to prove she can handle her new assignment: photographing and writing about Nebraska's rodeo season. Riley is determined to keep the city girl from getting herself hurt. But between rodeo events, small-town gossip, country dances, and one unforgettable kiss, their bickering begins to turn into something neither of them expected.The problem is, Alyssa knows what it means to love someone and lose them. And Riley is still risking his life every time he climbs onto the back of a bull.As her time in Bluestem runs out, Alyssa must decide whether she is ready to return to the safety of her old life — or take the biggest risk of all and open her heart again.Falling for the Rodeo Cowboy is a clean, cozy small-town romance filled with rodeo charm, opposites-attract sparks, healing after loss, a protective cowboy, and the heartwarming community of Bluestem, Nebraska.
