Second Go- Round Gay Romance, Western Romance
Dreamspinner Press
March 15, 2022
Kindle
229
Amazon
Former world champion bronco rider Dustin and rancher Marshall have been life partners for more than twenty years, and time has taken its toll. Their sex life is as dusty as the rodeo ring. Somehow their marriage hasn’t turned out how they planned.
But when a new family moves in up the road with two young boys, one very sick, Dustin and Marshall realize how deep their ruts are and that there might be hope to break them. After all, where they’re from, the most important part of being a man is helping those who need it.
A new common purpose helps break down the deep routines they’ve fallen into and makes them realize the life they’ve been living has left them both cold and hollow. Spending time with the kids—teaching them how to be cowboys—reignites something they thought lost long ago. But twenty years is a lot of time to make up for. Can they find their way back to each other, or are the ruts they’ve created worn too deep?
Reviewed by: Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Review Team
Dustin Meyers and Marshall Brand have been together for over twenty years. Dustin was a champion bronco rider and Marshall rode bulls which is how they met. Together they bought a ranch which is now successful but unfortunately, they can’t say the same about their relationship. Once the things that originally brought them together now seem to annoy them.
Marshall takes care of the ranch while Dustin cares for the cooking and cleaning. The two of them do not even sleep in the same room; so romance no longer exists. It will take a new neighbor moving in with two young boys for Dustin and Marshall to finally see what they are missing. but is it too late to go back to what they had.
Anne and her husband Richard moved in about a mile from the ranch and Dustin immediately set out to help them especially when he discovered that one of the boys was sick. Helping the family gave him something to do and made him remember the dream he once had. His dream was one that Marshall didn’t share and Dustin put his dream away. His dream always lived somewhere in his heart and every so often it came to the forefront.
Marshall and Dustin don’t fight, they don’t make love and they don’t talk to each other about anything of importance and Dustin is determined to put a stop to it or leave. Marshall believes that he is doing everything to protect Dustin and the men who work for them and to do that he has to work hard, so hard that there is little or no time for him and Dustin to spend quality time together.
I know what they are going through having been married for sixty years, but there is one thing that doesn’t change and that is the love. They are like two ships that pass in the night but one of them has to stop and begin communicating. Dustin is not happy and finally begins the conversation they should have had years ago but didn’t.
A beautiful story about two men each convinced they are doing what they were meant to do and neither ready to sit down and face some hard truths about their relationship. A story about reconnecting, a story about how communication is so important. It would take two little boys to make Marshall and Dustin face what their life is like today and what it was like yesterday when they first met. This is a story about two middle aged men not some young guys just starting out and it was very refreshing.
LGBT/CONTEMPORARY/ROMANCE
