This is Carson and Carolyn's story the parents of some of those wild McKay's we've spent the past several years reading about. After Carolyn is severely injured Carson and Carolyn go down memory lane. Gotta love a love story that's been going on for fifty years. Almost every memory had a sex scene which were good scenes but I felt wasn't necessary to express the love. Got a little teary eyed as well.
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I’ve read many long running series and sometimes by that last book your ready for it to end and maybe even disappointed with how the author chose to end the series. That was sooo not the case with Cowboy Take Me Away. This is the 16th book in the series and its the best of them all and I really loved all the previous books so that says it all right there.

In total, this book spans 60 years but it’s the first 50 that is at the core of it. It’s the telling of Carson and Carolyn’s love story and their triumph of beating the odds and loving each other as much 60 years later as they did when they first met.

In the previous books we’ve gotten glimpse through their children’s stories about their marriage and how it all started but this books gives us all the details along with also showing us about the other three brothers, Calvin, Charlie and Casper, and how they were before they married and then when they find their significant others.

Carson and Carolyn had six kids that we had already come to love from their books. To get to experience when they were born and all growing up just enriched those characters all the more. Some of the funniest scenes in the book where when those 6 hellions were growing up and what they put their parents through.

It is extremely sad that this was the final book but even though I am sad their wont be anymore McKay shenanigans to read about at the end of this book I felt satisfied that it had all come full circle and don’t feel like anything thing was left unfinished. Bravo Lorelei for giving us a wonderful cast of characters to fall in love with over the years and giving us a beautifully written ending to the McKay saga!!
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THERE AREN'T ENOUGH STARS TO RATE THIS BOOK PROPERLY! I will never regret picking up the first book in this series several years ago as a freebie kindle read because I was immediately hooked. This final book goes out on a high note as the best of the series. There is so much insight into many stories from previous books that they make me want to reread the entire series with a whole new prospective. I will warn you though this book put me on an emotional roller coaster (and I don't recommend trying to read it while at work like I've been doing because I couldn't put it down...laughing out loud and crying are really hard to cover up).

Major props to Ms. James, you couldn't of written better end for our beloved McKays!!! ( )