Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: The Cowboy’s Bullfighter
SERIES: Foster Ranch (Book 4)
AUTHOR: BA Tortuga
PUBLISHER: Turtlehat Creatives LLC
LENGTH: 258 pages
RELEASE DATE: September 16, 2025
BLURB:
When Cooper Adams gets a call for help from a young rodeo kid he knows like family, he has no choice but to help. He’s a bullfighter, after all, and Benji might be of age, but he has a bunch of siblings who are not, So when the kid is injured, he just takes all of them back to his place in Northern New Mexico, lock stock and barrel. It’s not like they have any other family in the country now that their folks have passed away.
Brooks Whitehead has been working as a horse trainer on a station in Australia, toiling away for a millionaire with tons of money to burn. But when he finally gets the news that his brother and sister-in-law are gone, he heads back to the States to find and help their kids. What he discovers is that Benji doesn’t want his help, and he has to ask Coop if the man is willing to let him stay on and get to know his family again.
The two men work to help heal the kids from their loss, and Benji from his broken pelvis, but they also find they had a lot in common. They’re both cowboys. They both want to do right by those kids, And they have a chemistry that’s undeniable. But when they get separated by work and circumstance, can they come back together while they still have time to do it?
REVIEW:
We’re back in Chiara ranch country and I simply love visiting the Foster Ranch saga. I love all those cowboys that make life better for those around them. And I especially love that they take on the kids that need a safe and loving place to live.
Lord O’Mercy! Cooper Adams thought that buying and retiring at that ranch next door to his rodeo buddy Ryder and his husband, and good friend, Kase and having his three dogs, while he worked with young future bullfighter/cowboy protectors, was what was destined for the rest of his life. But that frantic call from young Benji, one he had always been close to and was now mentoring, changed his life immediately and forever. Now he had 6 kids, ages 19 to 5, all living with him and calling him Uncle Coop. And he had the legal papers to back that up. What he never expected was Brooks Whitehead showing up on his doorstep one and a half years later. Long after the kid’s parents (Brooks’s brother and sister-in-law) had died suddenly in that accident. It was six months already since Coop took them in.
Brooks’s life in Australia stopped the moment that Aussie Bull-rider asked if he was related to the Andy Whitehead that had been killed in the USA. He might be jumping immediately on the next plane to the US but Andy and his wife were killed a year and a half ago! And his 6 nieces and nephews have been somewhere on their own, in a tiny travel trailer barely big enough for two, just trying to survive. What he never expected was the famous Cooper Adams had taken his kin in as his own and was raising them. And that his oldest nephew wanted nothing to do with him after taking on his siblings and becoming their legal guardian. And that he would confuse his youngest little niece by lookin’ and sounding just like her dead daddy! Or that living at the ranch with Cooper would make him “catch feelings” 😳
I have mad props for Coop! That man went and did the right thing even though he wasn’t related by one drop of blood to Benji and his younger siblings! Taking on 6 kids and raising them as his own, when he had been a gay, single, successful bullfighter/cowboy protector all his life, was a huge undertaking. But he had the space in his giant home and plenty of room in his caring heart. And he was a natural. But adding Brooks to the mix made it all the more real and wonderful.
In this book, and what happened to Coop with that stallion, is why I don’t do horses! They are beautiful, majestic creatures that are huge and can do serious harm in the blink of a eye. Unfortunately I experienced that personally as a teen. I have major respect for those mighty creatures and the brave cowboys and cowgirls that mount that saddle…but I won’t be one of them ever again. But it doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy watching a gorgeous cowboy commanding a beautiful horse to do his will. That’s always a wonderful sight to behold.
I will say that Author BA Tortuga tortures me every time I sit and read her fabulous Cowboy books. The food that she describes makes me so hungry. If I ever get the honor to meet her we are going to go break bread (or tortillas probably 🤣) together and I’m going to experience that food first hand!!!
This was a wonderful story of good old fashion caring and doin’ the right thing. And I loved it 💕
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