Sweet September Skye

Sweet September Skye: Book #2 in the McCullough Romance series. Missing her family and her horse, Skye McCullough has returned home to Canden Valley to live and work in the family pub, a perfect venue for flirting with the cowboys who wander in for a beer as they're passing through town. But she is very selective. She will only go out with the ones with whom she is certain to have no future. The moment Nick Callen happens into the local pub for directions to the river, he is smitten with the sassy bartender.
So much so that he uproots his writer's life in San Francisco to move to Canden Valley and tend bar alongside her. But getting Skye to go out with him is a challenge for which the highly-successful journalist did not bargain. After almost five tormenting months of watching her flirt with oversized and under-intelligent men, he finds a way to get her to agree to go on one date--an all-day, all-night date.
By the end of their night together, she is beginning to thaw. After all, the man did learn to ride a horse for her. There is a reason Skye has kept her distance from the intelligent bartender who can hold his own in any verbal sparring competition. The cowboys are safe. Nick is anything but. He is someone she could fall for, and that's the last thing she wants. After suffering the tragic loss of her first love at only sixteen, she has put up barricades that would give Fort Knox a run for its money.
The feisty, outspoken bartender is determined never to fall in love again. Nick finally learns that beneath the brazen rebel who is anything but sweet, lies a vulnerable, frightened tender heart. Nick's challenge is to not only show Skye that she's safe with him, but that she's ready to let herself fall in love again.