As a teenager, Dalton Jakoby made Tank an offer—one Tank turned down gently. It was still embarrassing as hell, so when Tank returns to the Jakoby Rodeo Company after a big-time bull riding tour, Dalton decides polite but distant is the best course of action.Tank is hurting from some tough injuries and ready for a lighter workload. He’s also ready to admit Dalton is an adult now, one he wants to get to know much better. While Dalton’s past makes him suspicious of Tank’s attention, he can’t stay standoffish for long… not with Tank.
The new romance burns hot, but problems inside and outside the arena threaten what Tank and Dalton might have together.
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Cat gives this one 5 Meows with a 4 Purr heat index...
Tank gently turned down sixteen-year-old Dalton Jakoby when he was twenty one because he felt it was the right thing to do. He left and became a big name bull rider. Now with an injury, he comes back to help on the Jakoby crew. Dalton has grown up nicely and still shows interest in Tank. Soon it is obvious that feelings from the past from both men are still there and stronger. But ex's from both men's past show up. Will they grow in a relationship or will the past tear them apart?
I love me some BA Tortuga cowboys, especially the rodeo stories. each is gripping, unique and hot and this one didn't disappoint. As a matter of fact, I devoured it in one night! Every single character is awesome but I especially loved the connection between Dalton and his twin. I loved his father, mother, sisters and all of the friends. The build of their new romance was great, not too fast but not too slow and smoking hot!
There is enough tension from the dangers of the rodeo, the new roles the boys are taking and then toss in the showing up of Tanks ex Buik and his friends. But wait! It gets better. There is a very scary twist that took my breath away and nearly made me cry!
So If you like May-December, second-chance, cowboys, rodeos, lots of action, a fast-paced story, some twists and of course some hot man-sex you will love this.
Excerpt...
“DON’T MAKE me hurt you, man.” Dalton Jakoby looked at Ben, shaking his head at his oldest buddy and possibly the dumbest bull rider in the history of rodeo—and no one ever said these guys were rocket scientists. “You keep landing on your head, eventually you’re going to have your brains leaking out of your ears.”
Ben nodded, then winced. “I don’t think I broke anything.”
“Good. I guess. You want a beer, man?” The arena was dark now, the local Wyoming cowboys gone home and a goodly amount of the ones left headed to the biker bar out on the highway.
The rest of them were fixin’ to break up into groups and do their things—poker, dancing, beer, shit. There was even a little projector with some Disney movie playing on the side of a trailer.
“Nah. We got any Cokes?”
“Dr Pepper?” Tony asked, the bullfighter appearing out of the gloom.
“Sounds good, man. You seen Dustin?”
“He was back in sports medicine. He’s on his way now. Lanny James is headed out to the ER.” Tony rolled his eyes, but Dalton saw the worry in the bullfighter’s face.
“Damn. That sucks. Someone call his momma?”
“Dustin did, yeah. He’s a good egg.”
“Yeah.” Dalton’s twin was totally the good one. It was crazy-making. Dustin was always the one to crack when Momma and Daddy put the pressure on them, not him.
Tony dug into a cooler to hand Ben a soda. “Beer, Dalton?”
“Please. I’m off the clock.” Off the clock until he had to meet with the newspaper lady for an interview at ten tomorrow morning.
“You and me both.” Tony winked at him, dark eyes dancing.
“Praise God for that.” If Ben was getting himself hurt on Friday night, that meant the weekend was going to be rough. He felt it on the air.
“Yessir.” Tony tossed over a beer, and they headed to the stack of chairs the guys had put out. Best part about being a Jakoby was that most of the time, someone had dealt with the little shit. Worst part was all the big shit left to handle, he reckoned.
They settled in across from the others, Ben leaning his head back, a couple of the gate pullers from the local sheriff’s posse joining them. “Y’all mind if we join you?”
“Come on. We don’t sit on ceremony.” It was still a little weird to Dalton, saying that. Usually it was Pops, and not all that terrible long ago it had been Granddaddy, to welcome folks in.
A warm hand landed on his shoulder, and he didn’t even have to look. “All locked down for the night, Bubba.”
“Good job, Dee.”
Dalton handed his beer up to Dustin, and Tony tossed him another.
Dustin came around to plop down next to him. “Damn, it’s gonna be a long weekend.”
Texan to the bone and an unrepentant Daddy's Girl, BA spends her days with her basset hounds, getting tattooed, texting her sisters, and eating Mexican food. When she's not doing that, she's writing. She spends her days off watching rodeo, knitting and surfing Pinterest in the name of research. BA's personal saviors include her wife, Julia, her best friend, Sean, and coffee. Lots of good coffee. Y'all know that song, The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA? That's me, down to the bone.
Having written everything from fist-fighting rednecks to hard-core cowboys to werewolves, BA does her damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which was raised in Northeast Texas, but has heard the call of the high desert and now lives the good life in the Sandias. With books ranging from hard-hitting GLBT romance, to fiery menages, to the most traditional of love stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her head.
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