Review: Another Wonderful Modern Day Western Story from RJ Scott
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2014
As has been noted in the many other reviews of this book, the central characters are Nate and his two younger brothers, Gabriel and Luke.  Luke with the help of his brothers is running a dude ranch in Montana that is having financial difficulties that are beyond Nate's abilities to correct.  He advertises for a marketing director and hires Jay, a very astute marketing executive in New York who has just been fired as part of a severe downsizing of his firm during the recession.  Jay is looking after his sister, Ashley who has been battered by her boyfriend who also happens to be the father of her 6 year old son Josh.  She also has a teenage daughter, Kristen, who is very angsty and rebellious.  Jay agrees to move to Montana and the Crooked Tree Ranch if he can bring his sister and his nephew and niece with him which Nate is happy to agree to.The story follows the inevitable coming together of Jay, who is gay and completely out of the closet, and Nate who is also gay, but only has cracked the closet door open a bit.  It starts out fairly roughly since Jay and Nate are quite hostile to each other initially city boy versus country boy) and it takes a bit of emotional maneuvering by Jay to turn hostility into love.  The other two brothers also start to become involved with Jay's sister and daughter (Luke also being a teenager).  As an aside, one previous reviewer showed how little he paid attention to the contents of the book before bashing it when he said that Gabriel was interested in Kristen when in fact Gabriel was interested in her mother, Ashley. Luke on the other hand started to show an interest in Kristen, both being of approximately the same age.As is usually the case, RJ has written a wonderful love story which in this case is the first of three books.  I am hoping that the two subsequent books follow Gabriel in detail in one of them and Luke in another.  This superb story, in addition to the love aspect is a great look at how a change in lifestyle from a citified family to a rural one can change everyone's life in that family in this case for the better.  All of RJ's books are extremely  enjoyable and worth your time to read them, and this series will be as well.  Don't miss it.