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Lost Rider (The Coming Home Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Harper Sloan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.2 1,564 ratings

Book 1 of 3: The Coming Home Series

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In Lost Rider, the first Western romance in New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Harper Sloan’s Coming Home series, an injured rodeo star encounters an old flame but will she be just what he needs to get back in the saddle?

Maverick Austin Davis is forced to return home after a ten-year career as a rodeo star. After one too many head injuries, he’s off the circuit and in the horse farming business, something he’s never taken much of a shine to, but now that it’s his late father’s legacy, familial duty calls. How will Maverick find his way after the only dream he ever had for himself is over?

Enter Leighton Elizabeth James, an ugly duckling turned beauty from Maverick’s childhood—his younger sister’s best friend, to be exact, and someone whose heart he stomped all over when she confessed her crush to him ten years back. Now Leighton is back in Maverick’s life, no longer the insecure, love-stricken teen—and Maverick can’t help but take notice. Sparks fly between them, but will Leighton be able to open her heart to the one man who broke it all those years ago?

Written in the vein of Diana Palmer and Lindsay McKenna, this Texas-set series is filled with sizzle, heart, and plenty of cowboys!

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"Sloan hits it out of the park with her first Coming Home contemporary western romance[.] Maverick is a perfect hero: multilayered, complicated, deeply damaged, yet blooming with the new promise of love. Leighton is appealing and real, as are a strong supporting cast of characters whom readers will be glad to follow into sequels. Sloan enhances the gripping story with country songs that open each chapter. This absolutely spectacular effort catapults Sloan to the top of her genre." ― --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The first book in Sloan’s Coming Home series is a super-sexy second-chance read with a handsome ex-rodeo cowboy hero and the girl he left behind. The characters are well-written and the bedroom scenes are hot…Sloan does a wonderful job with portraying the secondary characters, and it looks like Quinn’s story, which is next up, is going to be a good one.” ― --RT VIP Salon

“Sloan brings plenty of heat to this otherwise very thoughtful, building love story." ― --Booklist

About the Author

Harper Sloan is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the Corps Security and Hope Town series. She started writing as a way to unwind when the house went to sleep at night. Harper lives in Georgia with her family. Visit her at AuthorHarperSloan.com or Facebook.com/HarperSloanBooks.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01HMXRVJA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pocket Books (April 25, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 25, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2682 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 401 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #485,663 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #9,295 in Contemporary Women's Fiction
- #10,061 in Western & Frontier Romance
- #13,244 in Women's Romance Fiction

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Harper Sloan is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today best selling author. She resides in Georgia with her three daughters, four cats and two dogs. While being independently published is a dream, she also has three traditionally published titles with Pocket Books. When she isn't working hard on her next novel, you can most definitely find her with a book in hand.

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MJC

This book saved me from a massive book funk!

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2017

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This book has given me back my faith in the romance book community. Lost Rider for me is one of those books that you just can't manage to get over. It sits in your mind and on your heart and you just want to tell everyone that this needs to be their next read and you hope like heck that everyone loves it the way you do because otherwise we just can't be friends any more. *wink* The crazy thing about loving a book this much though is that, I in turn, find it difficult to review since all I really want to do is throw books at people shouting 'YOU MUST READ THIS!' I don't want to tell you anything because I want you to hunker down, read, and fall in love as hard as I did so that then we can talk about ALL THE THINGS!

I want to talk about how emotional the story is. I want to talk about how heartbreaking it is. I want to talk about how beautiful it is, how romantic it is, how freaking hot and swoon worthy this couple is. I want to talk about how we have all now become obsessed bull riding fans and how we are going to jump in my Honda Odyssey and truck it down to Texas so we can follow the circuit....but we have to take our families with us otherwise we're Maverick's mom and that is a big NO so, CARAVAN!!!!!

I want to talk about Maverick and this guy:

Bolton Bonner

and how I don't know if he was the inspiration for Harper, but he is totally my pick for Maverick. I want to swap picture after picture with you and follow Instagram and Twitter feeds. I want to, gasp, start watching Dancing with the Stars, something I have never done, haha. I want to talk about how much I adored Leighton who may have had her heart broken in so many ways but never once gave up on her dreams. Who may have become stand offish and frightened because the people she loves never stay, but still opens her heart up to possibility. I want to talk to you about how reading this book will remind you that our dreams are just there waiting for us to fulfill them and that we just have to have a little faith in ourselves and those that we love. I want to talk about how no matter the hurt we may have suffered we can't quit, we can't give up. I want to make pie and have picnics, I want to sit around a bonfire and wear colorful cowboy boots. I want to buy my husband a black Stetson and a pair of Wranglers. I want you to want all of those things too so you have to read this book. You have to see what made me fall so hard for this story, to not want it to end, to be anxious for Quinn and Clayton stories, to want to see little Mav and Leighton babies running in the bluebells. I want you to fall in love with reading again, if like me you found your self tired of the same old thing. I want you to fall in love with love and I want you to read this because this book will give you that. Maybe it just came at the right time for me but I don't believe that, I believe that this book is a book everyone can love. I feel like I am putting myself out on the line a little by saying that because you know some people just don't like the same things I do, I can't understand it but its true, *wink*, weird people, lol. Truly though this book is just simply a beautiful story that is easy to open yourself up to. It's a book that will melt your heart and have your soul smiling by the time you get to the end. I hope that you will love it as much as I did and when you are done reading I hope that you will come find me so we can have all the chats about Mav, Leighton, Quinn, and Clayton. I'll be here anxiously waiting for you!

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Kim U

Great start to new series from a favorite author

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2017

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I am not usually a big reader of cowboy/ western romances so I wasn't sure what to expect from Lost Rider, but I figured if Harper wrote it then it was certainly worth giving it a shot!

Maverick is feeling pretty lost indeed as the story opens. After finding out his career is over thanks to one too many injuries, he has spent the last few weeks in the bottle trying to drown out his misery. To add insult to injury, he has to return to his hometown of Pine Oak TX to face the painful memories that chased him from town and still haunt him. His abusive monster of a father has died and he needs to be there for his older brother and younger sister, but that also means facing the woman he has never forgotten.

Leighton loved Maverick from the time she was born, and by the time they were teenagers she had well defined visions of their future. Sometimes she thought he felt the same, but she slowly saw him morphing from a happy boy to a young man who was losing his joy for life as he got older. She never realized the extent of what he faced at home but she knew it was the root of the changes she saw in him. When Maverick graduated, she knew she was running out of time to let him know how she felt so she took a chance only to have her heart utterly shattered by him in the process. Ten years later that hurt still remains lodged in her heart and she dreads seeing him again.

Mav knew if he gave Leigh any hope at all that she would give up her own hopes and dreams at the young age of 16 to follow him, so he pushed her away in the harshest way possible in his 18 year old wisdom. Now 10 years later, he realizes the magnitude of his mistake but believes it's too late to make things right.

Maverick is a major jerk at the beginning of the story but we slowly come to understand why. Sparks immediately fly the first time he and Leigh come face to face and not in a good way, but that old attraction is still simmering right below the surface for both of them. Constant fireworks erupt whenever they are together and Leigh is determined to hold on to the anger and hurt to protect herself. After an enlightening conversation with his sister Quinn, Mav goes all in to prove to Leigh he is back for good and to try to prove his feelings to her, but that also requires him to bare his heart and tell her truths about his life not even Quinn and his brother Clay know.

This story has some pretty emotional moments as each of the characters deals with the fallout of the Davis patriarch's death and the secrets that are revealed in the aftermath. But it also has the sweet, funny and hot moments I expect from this author's storytelling even though the heat is muted a notch or two in this book. Mav has some of the wonderful alpha attitude I love in Harper's heroes, and his heartfelt speeches are just as yummy as his bedroom voice too ;-) The secondary characters were well developed, and all in all, I am definitely looking forward to more of the Davis clan in upcoming books!

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CAITLIN

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Reviewed in Canada on January 26, 2018

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LET ME JUST SAY TO THE AUTHOR JUST JOB ON WRITING THESE BOOKS. I HAVE READ ALL THREE OF THESE BOOKS I LOVE THEM . CAN WAIT TO READ MORE OF YOUR BOOK. YOU ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS . KEEP THESE KIDA BOOKS COMING.

Bücherwurm

schöne neue Serie, alle in sich abgeschlossen

Reviewed in Germany on June 29, 2017

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Harper Sloan gehört mit zu meinen Lieblingsautoren und nach der Corps-Sicherheits-Familien-Freundesbande für mich wieder ein voller Erfolg.
Die Charaktere waren mir schnell sympathisch, die Story zog mich damit schnell in seinen Bann, und schwups ist war ich am Ende des Buches angelangt und kann es kaum erwarten, wie es mit den beiden anderen Geschwistern weitergeht.

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Lumen

HEAD OVER BOOTS for this book!

Reviewed in France on April 30, 2017

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This is my first book from Harper Sloan. What a BOOK! :D
If u like witt. If u like romance. If u like good characters development. If u did not know cowboys...at the end of this book, you'll want your own cowboy! ;)
If u want a good read, a lot of fun, on a jumpy and sexy ride leading to HAPPY EVER AFTER.... THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU! :D

Julie Benedict

Wouldn’t recommend

Reviewed in Canada on July 14, 2020

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I was really excited about this book from goodreads. It had an interesting synopsis. I started reading, and at first I was like... this guys a prick. And I had a hard time liking him after that. It was like the two main characters were so angry at each other and then boom, they were in love and everything was “honey” and bleh. That’s where I really got disappointed because there wasn’t much growing down. The character went from being closed off and angry to super open and talking about his feelings. Basically becoming the perfect man. I’m not going the second book because the first left such a bad impression. Don’t waste your time.

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