Author: RJ Scott
Length: 75,000
words
Series
Blurb
One burned and
broken man finds his way home. Can he find peace in the arms of a man easy to
love?
Justin made the ultimate sacrifice for his country, battling domestic terrorism, never the man he really was, using hate to avenge the death of his best friend. The friend he'd killed.
What he doesn’t count on is getting shot, and if he's going to die he wants it to be on Crooked Tree soil. Home.
Sam is as much a part of Crooked Tree as any of the families, and the offer to buy into the ranch is a dream come true. But falling for a hidden, secretive, injured man isn’t the way to keep his head in the game.
Justin made the ultimate sacrifice for his country, battling domestic terrorism, never the man he really was, using hate to avenge the death of his best friend. The friend he'd killed.
What he doesn’t count on is getting shot, and if he's going to die he wants it to be on Crooked Tree soil. Home.
Sam is as much a part of Crooked Tree as any of the families, and the offer to buy into the ranch is a dream come true. But falling for a hidden, secretive, injured man isn’t the way to keep his head in the game.
Review
This is, without a doubt, the darkest of the
Montana books so far. If The Rancher’s Son was at times hard
to read, this story made me want to read with my eyes closed at times. Justin
broke my heart time and again. The hopelessness of his situation, and his
determination to not endanger his family and friends, his certainty that he
doesn’t deserve to be loved or that he’s incapable of feeling an emotion like
love ever again; all of it made my heart ache because it was so very
understandable. And yet, through all of Justin’s pain, while he’s fighting
doubt and feelings of guilt and inadequacy, the one thing that keeps him
grounded and stops him from falling apart altogether—or giving up and dying for
that matter—is the presence of Sam. With Sam’s fingers in his hair, Justin can
go on for another hour, another day.
So yes, this book made me feel all the feels, even
if they were dark emotions for a large part of the book. They couldn’t be
anything else. Nobody goes through what Justin has been forced to endure only
to shrug it off again. So while I’m no good with angst and found it hard to
live in Justin’s head at times, it all made perfect sense and I found myself
grateful that the author had not given a miracle ‘love heals all’ sort of
resolution to Justin.
In the two previous books we got to know Sam as a
flirtatious and cheeky chap. This book shows there’s a lot more to the man.
Underneath his lighthearted attitude hides a painful past he can’t completely
shake. And that is probably the reason he is so good for Justin. Sam is not
inclined to discuss his personal history with others and is willing, up to a
point, to accept the same from Justin. When he does insist on answers it is
because he thinks Justin needs to give them rather than a result of a personal
need to know. All he knows is that he feels a connection to the man who was all
but dead when he found him.
I’m not going to reveal exactly what Justin went
through and had to do just to stay alive and keep himself from completely
losing his mind. All of that should be revealed, as it is in this book, slowly
and by Justin himself. Suffice to say that while there were moments when I
wanted to shake him and tell him to just trust Sam and relax already, I spent
most of my reading time wanting to wrap him up in my arms and keep him safe.
Overall this was an at times very hard to read,
heartrending but ultimately fabulous and very satisfactory story that kept me
on edge for longer than I’m usually comfortable with, only to lead me to the
happy but not too perfect ending it needed. I can’t wait to read book four and
spend more time with all of the Montana gang.
Related reviews: Crooked
Tree Range The
Rancher’s Son
Author Bio
RJ
Scott is
the bestselling gay romance author of over ninety MM romance books. She
writes emotional stories of complicated characters, cowboys, millionaire,
princes, and the men who get mixed up in their lives. RJ is known for
writing books that always end with a happy ever after. She lives just
outside London and spends every waking minute she isn't with family either
reading or writing.
RJ also writes MF romance under the name Rozenn Scott.
The last time she had a week’s break from writing she didn't like it one
little bit, and she has yet to meet a bottle of wine she couldn’t defeat.
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