Messy and full of unmet potential!

Graham stables horses and has been a successful rodeo rider over the last ten years with his friend, Jackson. They’ve hooked up once during that time and it didn’t end well for either of them due to Graham’s nerves and Jackson’s homophobic self-loathing. Things finally change when Graham clashes with Kaz, a young animal rights activist, protesting at one of the rodeos and sparks fly. Over two steamy nights, Kaz takes charge, tying and calming the older man down like one of his nervous horses. But the two men are idealistically opposed so it’s a bumpy ride.

This love-triangle novella was just too short (109 pp) to do the premise, the storyline, or the BDSM justice so it felt rushed, chaotic, and unconvincing. There were no backstories for any of the characters so it was hard to connect with them and the instalove between Graham and Kaz felt unrealistic given they’d never met before, had utterly nothing in common, and had no reason to trust each other. It would have made much more sense for Kaz to act as a catalyst for Graham and Jackson to sort out their feelings for each other. Graham was an incredibly atypical cowboy character - he endured rodeos and handled horses but was easily cowered and emotional. I like narrator Michael Ferraiuolo but he was totally unsuitable for this audiobook. He just used his normal voice with no mid-western or southern accent, making Graham’s character even more unconvincing.

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