Taken, Not Spurred is a western contemporary romance that used the theme "fish out of water", "sassy girl vs. uptight reclusive guy" to good effect.
To recap, Sarah Dery always wanted to write, and she felt her life wasn't going anywhere. When summer came around, and a friend offered to host her for a couple months with her horse while she worked on their ranch, Sarah jumped onto her vehicle, loaded her horse into the trailer, and drove west toward Texas. The only problem upon her arrival: she went to the wrong ranch... or perhaps we should say, right ranch... wrong town. She ended up in Tony Carlton's shower, in fact. Tony is handsome, tall, buffed, but reclusive horse trainer who felt dead after an incident he still refused to talk about. Yet the sight of this city girl was... interesting. And Sarah was very pleased because this brooding cowboy has really spurred her imagination. Can she break down his walls? Will she want to stay if she did?
The girl was sassy without being a complete idiot, but exasperating enough to drive the local sheriff up the wall. And once she broke through his wall, plenty of hot sex. Fun to read. The brooding guy is almost a cliche, but the reason given was very nice.
Category: Contemporary/western
Primary Plot: Girl wanting some ranch life ended up on the wrong ranch, and the brooding cowboy fell for her sassy ways
Tropes: different worlds, fish out of water,
Overall Rating: 4/5
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