Nowhere to Hide Nowhere to Ride Book 2
LGBTQ Romance/Western/Novella
Independently Published
August 24, 2021
94
Stylish Sinclair Llewelling has little contact with his family, but he loves his cousin Lilly very much, and agrees to help her plan the elegant country wedding of her dreams. There’s just one problem: the foreman of the ranch where the wedding is to take place.
Former rodeo cowboy Dawson West takes his job very seriously, and he doesn’t appreciate anyone who gets in the way. Ranching is in his blood, and the people he works for are like family to him, so when Sinclair and his plans add to his work, he isn’t quiet about making his displeasure known.
Sinclair and Dawson have more in common than they realize, including a strong work ethic, horses, and spines of steel. Their fighting shifts to mutual respect, and heat flares as they see past each other’s walls to the men beneath. Just as Sinclair is getting a taste for ranch life, problems at his late father’s business pull him away from the cowboy who has lassoed him in. They’ll need to team back up to balance jobs, ranch, wedding, and what their hearts want.
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
Yes!! We return to Ky’s ranch and reunite with him, his partner Brodie, little Emily and Aunt Rita and we have another beautiful story about finding love and overcoming obstacles.
Dawson West, a former rodeo cowboy and now the foreman at Aunt Rita’s ranch did not have a pleasant childhood, father a drunk, parent’s divorced and a mom who finally succumbed to cancer. Right after high school he got a job at the Cantino ranch where Rita’s husband took him under his wing and became more of a father to him than his own. When Rita’s husband died Dawson became the foreman, he had long ago given up the rodeo and now all his time was devoted to keeping the ranch running smoothly. Then he gets the news that Lilly and Ben are getting married and holding the ceremony at Rita’s ranch and even worse was the arrival of Lily’s cousin Sinclair Llewelling making things go from smooth to bumpy.
Sinclair shows up in a fancy car dressed in fancy clothes and with a stuck-up attitude which gets Dawson in a snit and since he is responsible for showing him around to find the perfect location for the ceremony things start out less than friendly. Of course, Sinclair does nothing to smooth things over and takes great delight in pushing Dawson as far as he can. Sinclair is convinced that Dawson is gay but deep in the closet and although he finds him attractive, he is unwilling to date a man who won’t accept who he is even if Dawson was willing.
As the two men work together, they come to realize that they are more alike than they thought and the differences they first noticed and resented began to mean very little. Then Sinclair is called back to run the company his father left him, a company he thought he wanted nothing to do with on a full-time basis but now realized it was exactly where he belonged. Dawson is a cowboy and the ranch is where he belongs, Sinclair’s business is in the city where he would need to be to run the company so the relationship they both wanted had to survive distance and separation. Can these two men find a way to be together in spite of their jobs and their living arrangements? Will the cowboy be willing to leave the ranch? Will the city slicker be willing to abandon his business and move to the country? You will have to read this wonderful book for the answers to these questions.