Review: Beautiful storyline
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
THE RIDING MASTER is the second instalment in Alexandrea Weis’s adult, contemporary romance series. This is Rayne Masterson Greer and Trent Newbury’s story with a ‘tie in’ to Alexandrea’s Cover to Covers storyline.The premise focuses on Rayne and Trent’s building relationship and Rayne’s inability to trust. Rayne’s marriage ended when she caught her husband in bed with a much younger woman and she has had issues of trust ever since. Trent is the new riding master at Southland Stables where Rayne teaches the younger children to ride and their attraction to one another is immediate. With Rayne’s inability to trust and Trent’s history with innumerable women, Rayne’s afraid of losing her heart to a man who makes it very easy for her to love.The relationship between Rayne and Trent begins as friends but moves to lovers within a short period of time. Rayne’s lack of experience in the bedroom is fueled by the knowledge that Trent is a man who knows what he wants and he wants Rayne for his very own. But the past has a funny way of sneaking into the present when both Rayne and Trent’s exes show up to the same party where Rayne will be introduced to Trent’s co-workers and friends. Perhaps there is someone working behind the scenes to ensure Trent and Rayne never get together.The secondary characters are colorful and Rayne’s emotions are fueled by their one on one conversations. Rayne is a stubborn and sometimes frustrating woman whose self image and self esteem have been damaged by her previous marriage. Add an alcoholic mother and the death of her father and we see a woman who has had very little to enjoy-her horse and her dog are the only true constants in her life.Trent is a man of wealth and experience. Sure of himself and what it is he wants, Trent pursues our heroine but Rayne continues to push Trent away at every opportunity until she may have pushed him too far.Alexandrea Weis writes a beautiful storyline of betrayal and trust; hope and love; second chances and a happily ever after. There is a small ‘tie-in’ to Weis’s COVER TO COVERS storyline that gives THE RIDING MASTER a familiarity to the readers. Alexandrea will continue to add the ‘tie-ins’ in future storylines and we hope we see a little more about each of the couples introduced throughout the ‘series’.I was gifted a copy