The Rancher's Code (Western Oath, Book 1) by Jason Collins


Dylan may be a city boy, but he is the best wedding planner out there, and he's in Montana to give the bride the perfect day, even if he has to ignore her attractive cowboy businessman brother. Two opposites that click instantly and get their quick HEA.


From The Rancher's Code blurb:

DYLAN:

There’s nothing safe about Cole Stratton.

He’s straight, untouchable, and carved from grit—the last distraction I need while trying to wrangle a wedding in the middle of cowboy country.

One, he’s not into men. And two, he’s a rancher who carries silence like a loaded gun.

Three weeks on Cole’s land, planning his sister’s wedding while he watches me like I’m trespassing. Cole might own half the valley, but he still builds his own fences. And Amber? Full-blown bridezilla. I’m just trying to survive without getting trampled—or buried in roses.

But Cole is never far—solid, smoldering, and close enough to touch. Just being near him feels like a risk.

Get too close, and I might not walk away in one piece.

COLE:

The rules were simple: be the good son, marry the right girl, run the family ranch.

But things didn’t go according to plan.

Now I’m divorced, chasing redemption, and determined to prove I’m worthy of the billion-dollar empire my father founded. No mistakes. No distractions.

Then my sister drags home a flashy planner from the city who turns my land into a fairytale circus. Dylan Reid is fiery, persistent, and impossible to ignore.

But the pull is constant. The glances, the tension. The way he looks at me like I’m not coming undone.

Dylan wasn’t in the plan. Not even close.

But out here, with temptation riding shotgun and my restraint unraveling, rules have never felt so meaningless.

The Rancher's Code is the first book in the Western Oath series. It can be read as a standalone with no cliffhanger.


SNik's review:

First in series (Western Oath). City/country. Slow burn. Instalove. Quick read. Dual POV. 

While in Montana planning the wedding for a super rich and super nice bride Dylan crosses paths with her businessman brother. Certainly not expecting attraction, Cole isn’t sure what to make of his interest in Dylan and can’t seem to keep his hands to himself. 

This was a quick story of two different men taking an instant lust to instant love and making it work. There wasn’t a lot of background for either of them, and there are a few stumbles from Cole as he had never been with another man before, but his eventual commitment no matter what is what gives he and Dylan a chance for an HEA. The fast romance and supportive secondary characters (who may be set up to get their own books in the future) were good, I also appreciated that the sister was sweet throughout, and that there was no problem from the family in accepting Cole and Dylan as partners.


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