When you think of obsessed…what do you think of?
Better add me with this book to that definition.

I love how in charge Indya was and how she had a plan.
I also really loved that Devney Perry gave us a chance to watch her shape the resort/ranch into shape.

It was like watching Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmare x HGTV.

I already know I will sacrifice a kidney for the second book in this series.

Wow. Wow. Wow. I made the mistake of sitting down to read just a few chapters of this before bed and ended up binge reading the entire thing. 1AM rolled around and I was in a glass case of emotions. West was so darn swoony and I loved the relationship between him and Indya. Devney Perry proves once again that she is the queen of small town romance.

Indya starting going to West’s family ranch resort when she was eight and the two forged a friendship that lasted decades and long separations, until things changed.

Life went on when they weren’t together and this set them apart. Her life was spent trying to be brave for her mum and sick dad. His life was spent trying to keep the family ranch going.

Unfortunately neither of them had control of the things that mattered most to them and did not reconnect until it was almost too late.

Stories that jump back and forth aren’t my favourite, but it was completely necessary for this story to make sense.

They both got in their own way at times. West didn’t stand up to his father enough and Indya lived for her father’s happiness, not her own.

I loved seeing Indya bring the ranch back to life and give West back his passion for her and the ranch. West showed Indya the appreciation she had never really felt before and they made a really good team.

I thought the additional characters definitely added to the story, even the frustrating ones.

I really enjoyed the family feel to the Ranch and am looking forward to learning more about some of the other characters.

I knew I was going to love this from the minute I read the blurb! This is an example of when I got to the end of the book and just wished there was more. ‘Crossroads’ is a small town, second chance, romance that is for sure going to melt your heart. Our two main characters, West and Indya, have been in love with each other for a long time but it never seemed to be the right time. Years later, fate brings them back together but it’s not happy ever after just yet. Having ended on bad terms they reunite under circumstances that cause even more tension (hello, the angst?!). At that point, I could see that it was going to be enemies to lovers which is one of my favourite tropes! I do use the term ‘enemies’ quite lightly as you could feel the tension between them because of their unresolved feelings. Told in alternating timelines of past and present, this love story unfolds in such a beautiful way which really showcases Devney Perry's writing. It was such a great first instalment of what looks to be an unputdownable series!

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🏔️Crossroads (Haven River Ranch #1) : Devney Perry 🏕️

Format: eBook (NetGalley)
Publisher: Montlake
Publication Date: June 3, 2024
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

I was so excited to read this! This is the first book in Devney Perry’s new Haven River Ranch series. It is a dual POV switching between characters Indya and West.

Eight year old Indya first meets West as a child when her and her family stay at his ranch/resort in Montana. At 9, they were playing poker together, and at 11 they were making paper airplanes. By 16, things were getting much more complicated and they were kissing. As Indya grew up, she continued to visit the ranch with her parents even when she didn’t want to. She would do anything to please her father who was sick with cancer. Eventually on one of her last visits, she discovers West is engaged to someone else, and then she moves on and marries another man.

Years later, Indya reappears at the ranch as its new owner. West and his family are less than thrilled. Eventually West and Indya fall into each other’s arms again, and West discovers the true reason Indya bought the ranch… HIM!

Devney Perry has done it again mixing the perfect amount of emotions with romance and spice. If you love an enemies to lovers or second chance romance then this is the book for you!

Thank you NetGalley, Montlake, and Devney Perry for this ARC! I never would have dreamed I would get my hands on an advanced copy of one of Devney Perry’s books!

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Wow Wow Wow! Devney sure knows how to hook a girl to her stories. She is a magician and weaves the story in a way that it makes it impossible to put down. Crossroads is fabulous and an amazing start to a series. I'm already low key obsessed with Haven River Ranch world.
Indya and West have been in love since they didn't even know what love was. Thier hearts belonged to each other since she was eight and he was ten when she first visited his family ranch and resort in summer. Thier love story couldn't finish and they walked away from each other in thier twenties. Now few years later Indya is back. She is the only one who can save his family ranch and resort but he is too stubborn to admit that. And to move further they have to work out their old differences.
This is definitely a must read! I'm usually not a fan of second chance but this book made me fall in love with the trope.

Absolutely blown away, if I could give more than 5 stars I would. This is second chance perfection. The then and now timeline was beautifully done and had me sobbing by the end. Indya and West are soulmates who just hadn’t been able to get the timing right for years. This was a beautifully tragic, heartbreaking, inspiring, tender story of love, friendship, and second chances. I cannot say enough good things about this book!

What a fantastic start to this new series!
I thoroughly enjoying my time at Haven River Ranch with West and Indya.

Indya visits this resort in Montana with her parents every year or two from being 8 years old, and spends her week there with West whose family own the resort and ranch. As they get older, their friendship develops into more, but only ever for that week before they go their separate ways. They’re very much right person, wrong time- for years.

So West is very surprised to see Indya and learn that she has just bought the ranch. Emotions run high and there is a lot of tension as he comes to accept she is now his boss and calls the shots. The resort is struggling and she intends to turn it round and make it profitable, wanting to see it flourish.

Some of the storyline was a bit predictable but it didn’t take away from the story in any way for me, I just loved it and the feelings between Indya and West felt so strong and genuine throughout. The way they’d missed each other for so long and has so many missed chances meant you couldn’t help but want them to get their HEA. Indya’s relationship with her Dad was beautiful and really tugged at my heartstrings.

I loved that the epilogue jumped ahead a few years and am guessing book 2 might start around that time too. I can’t wait to be back at Haven River Ranch later this year!

Huge thanks to the author and Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Indya Keller swore she would never go back to Crazy Mountain Cattle. It had been years since she’d spent a family vacation on the ranch in Montana since she’d seen West Haven, the boy she met when she was eight, who she played poker with when she was nine, who made paper aeroplanes with when she was eleven. The boy she’d kissed at sixteen, loved at eighteen, the boy who stole her heart and she hadn’t seen since she was twenty-three. Yet here she was, breaking the vow she made to herself, except now she wasn’t a guest, she was the ranch's new owner.

Crossroads is told through a dual timeline, the current, with Indya as the new owner of the ranch, and with chapters from the past, each time she’d visited on a summer vacation with her family. We got to see her and West meet each other, become friends, spend time with each other, and love each other for only a week out each year, and now they’re working together to renovate the ranch with more time together than they’d ever had before.

I’m definitely still in my Cowboy era and Crossroads was a great addition to the other cowboy romances I’ve read. There’s was pining, tension, chemistry, sweet moments and of course gorgeous scenery, however, there was also heartbreak and grief interwoven in these pages but that didn’t make this any less of a lovely, swoony and heartfelt read.

Devney Perry is the queen of small town romances and this book specifically felt like it was written for me since it contained my favorite tropes; second chance romance, childhood friends to lovers, alternating timelines, dual POV … this book was like crack to me.

When you pick up a DP book you know you are going to get an amazing story with lovable characters and great spice and Crossroads delivered on all those things.

Indya and West share such a deep connection but their timing is always off. They are also dealing with some trauma from their childhood and trauma from past relationships but the one thing they never away from are their deep feeling for one another - even when they’re outwardly acting like they aren’t affected their inner thoughts are ones of pining.

If you are a fan of Perry’s earlier work you will devour Crossroads!

I'm obsessed with Devney Perry!!

This story of Indya and West a second chance romance.

Had all my favourite tropes second chances, grumpy sunshine need I say more.

This was such a beautiful story, I love that it was told between past and present where we get to see the love and bond that grew over the years between West and Indya.

Thank you NetGalley and Montlake for the opportunity to read this prior to publishing date.

Thought I'd give Devney Perry another chance since I didn't particularly enjoy Indigo Ridge - but this book pleasantly surprised me. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would considering the plot seemed somewhat bland. It ended up being a cute and cozy romance that was super easy to read and only took me a few hours to get through.

The writing was rich and atmospheric in the sense that I now totally get the appeal of Montana and the ranching lifestyle, even though I'd never stepped foot in a setting even remotely close to it before in my life lol. The flashbacks and dual POV was well written and added much needed depth to the story where I really got to see how the main leads came to love one another. Many romance books nowadays lack this buildup of tension and genuine feelings which showcases the connection between the love interests.

I found that I actually enjoyed the past versions of the main leads more so than the present timeline version of themselves. There were also heart wrenching moments surrounding the theme of grief incorporated in this story which was thoughtfully addressed.

The ending was sort of abrupt but the epilogue was cute and set up for the next book in the series.

Would read again - I already have a special edition of this ordered! This book also made me reconsider trying out other Devney Perry books.

Overall rating: 4/5

This was a beautiful, emotional and endearing story from start to finish that ensnared me with its sweetness, Montana scenery and characters that I adored. It tells the story of how the characters met as children, and every year after that as well as the current timeline. I don't want to say too much, but there is a little innocent fun, some tension as they grow older and the once a week visits almost every year starts to change, a few missed opportunities and one final chance to make it all worth while.
I loved this story and finished it as quickly as I could! I can't wait for more from Haven River Ranch!

This is hands down my favourite book by Devney Perry so far. It's full of heart wrenching moments, longing and there is a huge sense of the right person wrong time trope.

Indiya and West are so well written, funny, brazen, and a delight to read about. I devoured this book within a few hours last night and I was left feeling so much love for Crossroads.

I will write a fuller review closer to the release date, but just know if you are holding out for this book.. in true Devney style - it is very much worth the wait. Hot cowboys, summer nights, rebuilding a family business and admitting what you want. This book feels like coming home.

i haven’t read a very good book in a while, and devney perry books never disappoint. ever since i read couch for the first time, she’s been my auto read author, i even had this book saved in my calendar for it’s release. i was so happy when i found it in netgalley! what i loved about it is that it was a very quick and easy read, i finished it in two days, and didn’t get bored, it was emotional too! i’m not really big on second chance, but i was so in love with west and indya, and when second chance is written well, it’s really good!(which is rarely)i really recommend this book!!

Crossroads is book one in the Haven River Ranch series with Indya Keller and West Haven. It's a small town, childhood friends to lovers to enemies, steamy, second chance romance.

As a child, Indya visited the ranch in Montana every summer with her parents. Now, she is back--not as a guest, but as the owner. West and his brother were not aware that their father was selling the ranch, so West's reunion with Indya did not start out too well.

This is told in both Indya and West's POVs with dual timelines that show how West and Indya came to meet and their time together when she was at the ranch with her parents. I thought the backstory for them was sweet. There is more than their romance, though. The story also deals with loss and grief and is very emotional for Indya.

I listened as well as read this book and loved the ALC. Samantha Brentmoor and Connor Crais are just perfect in their narration. They definitely added to my enjoyment.

Thank you to Brilliance Publishing, Montlake, NetGalley and the author for an advance listener and advance readers copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Oh my god this book was everything!! I have never wanted my life to be like a book as much as I wanted it to be this! The emotions, the love, the storyline…perfect. Honestly if I could rate this more than 5 stars I would. The ending was amazing and it gave me the best closure. I will be thinking about this book for a very long time. As soon as it’s released I’m buying a physical copy for my bookshelf, that’s how much I loved it!

I absolutely adored this book!

Small town, second chance romance, with big hit of emotions.

With every book that Devney writes, it’s like her mission to make all of her readers fall in love with Montana. And she does it flawlessly.

With Dual POV between Indya and West, we’re drawn into their story with flashbacks from when they first met, first as friends and then something more. Indy and West have amazing chemistry, and some of their banter just had me smiling so hard. They couldn’t take their eyes or hands off each other.

This story was so well written, with the pieces falling into place between these two. Definitely have the tissues handy, Devney brings lots of emotions with this book.

I’m eagerly waiting for the next book in this series!

Devney Perry has created a unique romance that unfolds in both the past and present. The story and writing style of this novel are truly beautiful.

"Crossroads" is about West and Indya and takes place on a ranch in Montana. West and Indya haven't seen each other in many years, and there's a lot of tension when they meet again. What I loved most about this story was seeing their past and present come together. We don't know what exactly happened when they were kids, but we find out as we see their reunion in the present. The tension and unresolved feelings between them are clear from the moment they meet again, and you can tell they won't be able to stay apart.

There are some surprising twists in this book that I enjoyed because they were unexpected. There is a sense of suspense and mystery throughout the story, especially around Haven River Ranch, which not only adds to the plot but also strengthens Indya's feelings for West.

This was a truly beautiful story; I laughed, I cried, and I swooned. I can't wait to return to Haven River Ranch in the second book.

Thank you NetGalley for the E-arc in exchange for an honest review.

This was just a cute, quick read! I read it so quickly, i couldn’t put it down. I loved Indya and West as characters, the dual timeline really worked in this book normally I’m not a fan of when the author uses the past in books but it was done really well here. I’ll never say no to a cowboy romance!