Jake and Tor return in this long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Bareback! Having bought the ranch they've worked on for so long, they're now the proud owners of a spread of their own. There's more than enough on their plate coping with their new responsibilities and their arguments over ranch management, and it's not long before even more trouble hits. When he learns his sister has died in an automobile accident, Jake is crushed. His grief is tempered by Tor's loving support, but they're forced to be apart while Jake ...
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Jake and Tor return in this long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Bareback! Having bought the ranch they've worked on for so long, they're now the proud owners of a spread of their own. There's more than enough on their plate coping with their new responsibilities and their arguments over ranch management, and it's not long before even more trouble hits. When he learns his sister has died in an automobile accident, Jake is crushed. His grief is tempered by Tor's loving support, but they're forced to be apart while Jake deals with the family. When they bring Jake's nephew back to the ranch, things stretch to the breaking point. From the day to day difficulties of running the ranch to dealing with a teenager who's just lost his mother, Jake and Tor wonder if they'll be able to survive. In the fury of the storm, the two men fall back on the one thing that can get them through. Each other. Can they keep it together when everything seems to be falling apart around them? Chris Owen gives Jake and Tor a triumphant return, bringing back a cast of characters that are as well-loved as they are in love with each other. Settle in against the storm and read Natural Disaster today!
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This book is about what happens after the happy ending. Sure, you can have two dudes who love each other and fight the odds and ride off into the sunset to roger each other senseless, but what happens the next morning when someone's trick knee's out and the horse has colic and it's raining?
Jake and Tor return a few weeks after their first book, Bareback left off. They've bought the ranch, are hopelessly in love, and Jake might even have a future with his long estranged family. Then bam: Jake's sister is killed in a car crash, and they become the guardians of a 14-yr-old teenager. Along with just having bought a ranch and being two stubborn men hopelessly in love.
Gosh this book was good. I don't even know where to start. No, that's a lie, I do: Jake and Tor are amazing characters. I adored them. I want four more books about them. The supporting characters, Elias the deadpan old ranch hand and Jacob, the teenager, are a riot, but beyond that, Owen integrates all her characters with ease, and handles the plot well. It's a fairly simple plot, which allows for a lot of time spent on character development; the book is not just Jake and Tor, but the people who surround and love them--and those who don't--and how the two of them react to it all, and it really makes for a great read.
The ranch is well-drawn as an honest-to-good working ranch, and provides a good underlying support for the action. Owens' writing style has matured, I think, from Bareback, with better sentence-level mechanics and easier control, better pacing. I've seen some negative reviews of this book that all basically ask: "Who wants to read about two dudes in a long-standing relationship, negotiating hurdles?"
Uh, me. Right here! Woo!
At the heart of it all are two people hopelessly in love with each other, so in love they don't need words to communicate, and sometimes words just get in the way of what they're trying to say. And those two characters really made both this book and the first one two of my favorites. Outstanding.
Absolutely stunning. This will definitely be a re-read.
