Review: Heartwarming story with lots of romance & humor
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
This is a beautifully written story about Toby, a hotel manager in a small English village & Rain, a master carpenter who along with his business partner, is building a bar in the hotel that Toby runs.  From the minute they meet each other, the sexual sparks start to fly, but not before they insult each other first!  Pretty soon, they are meeting on a daily basis for quickie sex in the garden shed in back of the hotel.  Then they go on a date to a gay club, where Toby is turned on when Rain shows off his pole dancing skills.  Toby also discovers that Rain has a fear of sheep when they have sex out in a field on top of a bale of hay. He teases him mercilessly about it & that's where some of the humor comes in!This book doesn't have a lot of angst like Susan Mac Nicol's previous 2 books, but both Toby & Rain have secrets  & issues from their pasts.  Toby grew up in the foster care system from the time he was 10 years old & he was bullied by the kids in the last home he was in, causing him to act out & end up in the juvenile delinquency system.  He has a lot of anger issues & manages to control it unless provoked, like when a homophobe bully attacks him because he blames Toby for his girlfriend breaking up with him.  Rain also has issues because of something that happened to him at a party months before & an ex-boyfriend that wants to get back together with him after leaving him to go live in Monte Carlo.Susan Mac Nicol did an awesome job by writing this story from the POV of both Toby & Rain, alternating each chapter between the two.  It was very well written & also had a lot of hot sex!  Highly recommend it!!