Book safety, content warnings, and tropes down below.

He thrummed with a casual kind of arrogance, a rugged fuck you aura pulsing off him that could slap a man silly upon meeting the man.

I was really surprised to see that this book only has 197 pages, because it took me a long time to read it. I’m not going to blame our lovely Tal for it because I was in a massive reading slump when I first started this book. I finished the second half quite quickly when I finally was in the mood for it.

It has the usual amazing writing you can expect with Tal, as well as some nail-biting suspense and action, but the romance didn’t truly grip me like they usually do in his books. It was kinda just there. They had chemistry, but it is definitely not a romance heavy book. More like a subplot that ends in a somewhat open and hopeful way, maybe a mild HFN. There’s nothing wrong with having the romance take a backseat, I just wasn’t expecting it.

The characters were amazing though, and the descriptions of the community and the environment were incredible. It really did feel like I was in the Crazies looking for rustlers and cattle for a moment.

Mountains jutted for the sky, jagged teeth screaming at the sun like a drowning man gasping for air before he was pulled beneath the waves.

It’s strange to have a ‘least favorite’ of anything when it’s your favorite author, but I think this might be it. By no means a bad book, but the bar is set sky-fuckin-high with this guy, lol.

“I been dreamin’ of you my whole life,” he whispered.

⬇️ Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️

⚠️ Tropes & content tags ⚠️
Romantic suspense
Former military police MC
Small town
Murder mystery
Whodunnit
Cowboy MC
Western
Size difference

⚠️ Content warning ⚠️
Character murdered on page (hanged)
Flashbacks to military combat
Mention of the death of SCs (past, hit and run)
Gun violence
Brief mention of past firefight (no MC involved)
Details of murder victim (gunshot wound)
Death of MCs past lovers (off page, detailed)
Grief
Explicit sexual content
Details from military deployment and combat
Penetration without stretching
Graphic murder scenes
Graphic injuries detailed (side character)
Injured MC (gunshot wound)
Vomiting
On-page murder

⚠️Book safety ⚠️
Cheating: No
Other person drama: No
Breakup: No
POV: 3rd person, dual
Genre: Romantic suspense
Pairing: M/M
Strict roles or versatile: Strict roles
Main characters’ age: 35 and not specified
Series: Standalone
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Pages: 197
Happy ending: Hopeful, slight HFN


Meeting Lawrence was like meeting an immoveable force of nature. He was the mountain, the peak, the steadiness. And Everett had blown up against him, wind-torn and ravaged, a broken thing thrown away, discarded from life and everything he’d hoped for.

Everett was a walking wound, spun so tightly he held himself together through force of will alone. He was a tornado flying apart, but the only thing he was destroying was his soul.

Not a soul in these mountains wanted me, it seemed. And I was desperate for someone, anyone in the world. Spent some nights at the truck stop blowin’ guys just to feel like I mattered for five minutes.




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