Review: Love On the Ranch & In Town Too
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
Erin O'Quinn knows her cowboys. She's written several books and stories in which the hard-working outdoor-loving ranchers feature prominently. The Chase shows us that she also knows her townies well, too.In this engaging romp through her created universe of Noble, Nevada, she introduces us to Chase Grayson, a young rancher living his (lonely) dream working the ranch with his dad, and Brew Lloyd, a near-perpetual student living nobody's (lonely) dream at all-but-odds with his dad. The men renew an old acquaintance and the air sizzles with the recurrence of desires and fantasies neither had possessed the courage to speak of years before. Well and good.Except for the complicating factors: there's something rotten in Noble and that rotten something wants very much to get its hands on the abandoned silver mine on the Grayson ranch; Brew's father's homophobia doesn't just rear its head, it's as much a part of daily life for father and son as which foot gets the shoe put on first.How can the man with the golden mouth, as Chase thought of Brew, and the man with the golden body, Brew's view of Chase, prevent the underhanded machination of a mining company and friends from severing a part of the ranch that is more than a simple livelihood to the Grayson family? The help they need most would come from Brew's lawyer father, at his dying brother's bedside. Will he still be willing to give that help when he discovers that Brew and Chase are lovers? Solving one problem won't necessarily solve the other, as Brew and Chase discover.I enjoyed this book tremendously, and find myself returning to it over and over, aching for Brew and his father, ready to fight with Chase and his dad, and laughing at the interplay with a completely captivating minor character, the Scottish Terrier Mackenzie, or Fuzz Nuts as Brew calls him.A full five stars for fun and romance surrounded by intrigue and heartache.