I am voluntarily posting an honest review after reading an advance reader copy of this story.

All Night Long With A Cowboy is book 2 in the Kittredge Ranch series. It's a stand alone book but you'll have characters from other books in the Cold River, Co series from Catlin Crews. This time we have Jensen Kittredge, the 2nd son and most laid back of the family. Jensen thinks if he laughs first and loudest then people will like him. He's got guilt for miles and insist on punishing himself, forever it seems. Until he meets Harriet Barnet the high school librarian. Tow more unlikely people you'll be hard pressed to find. Turns out Jensen has a librarian fantasy, about this particular librarian. They each break every rule they live by and it's a difficult road to an HEA. I like Jensen but wish he'd stop being such a big kid sooner. Harriet is just plane odd and she knows it too. I never would have thought of making a romance of them but then I'm not a writer with a vivid imagination.

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Cowboy and the school librarian
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I received an ARC of this book to read through NetGalley. All opinions are my own. All Night Long With a Cowboy is the second book in Caitlin Crews steamy Kitteredge Ranch series.
It can be read as a stand-alone, but the first book in this series and the adjacent Cold River Ranch series are all delightful reads, so I suggest reading them all. Librarian Harriet Barnett is teaching a summer school course for kids at risk of failing. She is willing to do just about anything to help her students succeed, and if that means tracking down Jensen Kitteredge in a seedy dive bar and strong-arming him into coming in to speak to her class, then she will. What she didn’t expect is to become friends with the taciturn cowboy. Jensen Kitteredege gave up all his future plans after the tragic death of his high school best friend. Buried in grief and guilt, he’s been punishing himself all this time, and it’s not until tiny Harriet Barnett storms into his life that he begins to believe that he is worth more and deserves happiness. I enjoyed this friends to lovers story immensely and highly recommend reading it. Steam Level: Medium. Publishing Date: August 24, 2021. #AllNightLongWithACowboy #CaitlinCrews #KitteredgeRanchSeries #StMartinsPaperBacks #StMartinsPress #ContemporaryRomance #CowboyRomance #RomanceReader #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #NetGalley ( )

Harriet Barnett is the new librarian in town; she's only been there three years. Harriet considers herself odd since she doesn't enjoy or even understand so many things that others her age do. She prefers solitude and reading and research. She's perfectly content being known as the local cat lady.

Jensen Kittredge is a local who has a reputation as the town playboy even though he's hiding his facility with numbers and business and he is hiding guilt at the death of one of his high school best friends. He is also a fire jumper which has made him something of a local hero. He's quick with a joke or a laugh and is a bigger than life presence.

The two characters don't sound like they would have much in common. But Harriet needs Jensen to come and be a role model for some students she's working with during summer school. She confronts him in the more disreputable of the local bars and convinces him to come speak to her students.

This starts a romance that changes both of their lives in very positive ways.

I liked both main characters. I could understand Harriet's desires to march to the beat of her own drummer. Jensen was a great hero, too, once he finally managed to get over the guilt that had been guiding his choices since high school.

Fans of Western romances who like quirky characters will enjoy this story. ( )