Review: Boots and lace
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2013
A sizzling tale from the 'Ugly Stick Saloon' series. Waitress Lacey has learned that cowboys who are easy on the eyes see more women than is good for them, and gets to turn the tables.  She's twenty-eight, she's tried out the fine men in Temptation, Texas, and she's an unattached divorcee. Her pal has moved out to her boyfriend's place and the apartment suddenly feels empty.  Downstairs however, mechanic Nick has taken to sharing with his brother Cory now his divorce is finalised, so Lacey brings the lads a pizza and makes friends in more ways than one.BOOTS AND LACE presents a modern young woman, newly out for a good time, who's willing to try a ménage if she likes the men.  Rejected by the local ladies' gardening club when she threw out her cheating husband, Lacey is fed up with trying to gain approval and lead an accepted lifestyle.  At least she now knows who her real friends are.  Group participation is one way to stave off an intimate relationship - the kind she had wanted but never got.Nick is fascinated by the daring, imaginative girl, but has no desire to fall into the marriage trap again.  So an easy come, easy go relationship suits him... except when it doesn't.I liked how some risks are unacceptable; a driver decides not to drink, the men use protection in bed, a college student is encouraged to keep his grades up despite being a popular partygoer.  With this adult series, pretty much anything goes in romance; a girl has tried out three brothers before settling on one, while twins share another girl happily. The key element is that nobody is going behind anyone's back.Myla Jackson grew up on a South Texas ranch and brings genuine local flavour.  Even if we don't see ourselves doing the same as her characters, we can still applaud Lacey's decision to stop living by the restrictive mores of the ladies' club, or Nick's realisation that there is more to life than sitting at home.  I'll be revisiting the Ugly Stick saloon!