Two stepbrothers. One cruel will. A year they might not survive.

Jesse I left Hell Creek with a split lip and a vow: never look back. Death dragged me home. My stepfather’s will is a trap. Live on the ranch for a year, or lose it all. The catch? I have to do it with Cole. My stepbrother. The golden boy who stayed. The enemy I’ve hated since we were kids. We trade insults by day. But the nights are cold, the ranch is lonely, and the anger is starting to feel a lot like hunger.

Cole I stayed. I bled for this land. I held it together with baling twine and grit. Jesse ran. Now he’s back, wearing his city armor and looking at me with eyes that haven’t changed. I should hate him. I do hate him. But when a freak snowstorm traps us in a freezing tent for the night, the anger turns into something else. Something heavy. Something dangerous. He’s the one thing I can’t have. And the only thing I need.

Welcome to Hell Creek. Where the winters are brutal, the secrets are deep, and the love is strictly forbidden.

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Well that was… a really good story. I enjoyed getting to know Cole and Jesse . They both had things from the past the needed to work through before attempting to move forward.
Jesse was angry. Like he seemed pissed off all the time. He was getting on my last nerve with his attitude but the more I read, the more his anger made sense. I finished this book in a day. It was well written and the story had a nice flow to it.
This was another story where it seems the “parental figures” had everything figured out before main characters. It was entertaining watching the men get to know one another again.

Happy Pride Month everyone!  Twinsie Tenise here. I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who took the time to answer the questions for our pride month celebration. I thought hard about the questions and had fun coming up with them. I love that the authors seemed to have as much fun answering them. We will be celebrating all month with author spotlights  as well as reviews for some of the LGBTQIA  books we’ve read this year.  Check back daily to learn more about that days featured author or book and add to your TBR piles. I hope you enjoy getting to know a little about all of these wonderful authors and their work.

Griff: I learned early on that the easiest way to avoid a broken heart is to always be the first out the door. Caring about anyone or anything is asking to be disappointed, which is why I avoid relationships and chase freelance gigs — ghost writing restaurant reviews and penning articles about the efficacy of cheesy pick up lines — instead of chasing my dreams.

Besides, dreams don’t come true for people like me. And no one, not even the sexy-as-hell bartender at the club can convince me otherwise. Because I’m never risking my heart again.

Sam: As a bartender I’ve watched a million pick-up artists work their magic, but none as talented as Griffin Marian. He’s a flirt, a good time. Hooking up with him was supposed to be just a fling. I wasn’t supposed to care abut his fractured past or his buried dreams. I have my own future to worry about, especially after that stupid food critic scuttled my hopes of finally opening my own restaurant.

But, the more time I spend with Griff, the more I’m beginning to realize that my plans mean nothing without him. If only I can convince him to give us a chance to follow our dreams together.

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4 stars

Griffin is so broken. He doesn’t know how to love. He doesn’t understand what it means to show up for someone because no one has ever shown up for him.
Sam is pissed. He lost his job that would lead him to success and is now trying to make it as a bartender.
Sam has been watching Griffin come in and sit at the bar for weeks. Each time with a different man. Always calling them some term of endearment. Sam tries to avoid the obvious man whore but he can’t stop thinking about Griffin.
This one was tough. And the added angst of the secret between them made me read it even faster. Totally addicted to this series. I know I say this a lot but I am going to be sad to see the series come to an end. It has been fun getting to know this family.

Happy Pride Month everyone!  Twinsie Tenise here. I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who took the time to answer the questions for our pride month celebration. I thought hard about the questions and had fun coming up with them. I love that the authors seemed to have as much fun answering them. We will be celebrating all month with author spotlights  as well as reviews for some of the LGBTQIA  books we’ve read this year.  Check back daily to learn more about that days featured author or book and add to your TBR piles. I hope you enjoy getting to know a little about all of these wonderful authors and their work.

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Jude is a country music star. What everyone else describes as soulful is sadness. The reason for his sadness is because he has always hid who he is because of his celebrity status. Hes a closeted gay country music star. Coming out could ruin things.
Derrick is Judes personal security guard. Derrick is also closeted and even as he and Jude become a whole lot more that friends with benefits he says he will never come out.
Ugh! This one had a whole lot of drama and angst. Sooo freaking good. Thank you Mr Dean for doing another superb job with the narration. I’m obsessed with this series. Moving on to the next brother.

Happy Pride Month everyone!  Twinsie Tenise here. I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who took the time to answer the questions for our pride month celebration. I thought hard about the questions and had fun coming up with them. I love that the authors seemed to have as much fun answering them. We will be celebrating all month with author spotlights  as well as reviews for some of the LGBTQIA  books we’ve read this year.  Check back daily to learn more about that days featured author or book and add to your TBR piles. I hope you enjoy getting to know a little about all of these wonderful authors and their work.

Teddy: If there’s one thing I don’t do, it’s commitment. You don’t become an award-winning photographer by staying in one place. I’m always on the road, looking for the next shot, the next award, the next hot body. Which is how I end up on Dr. James Marian’s front porch in the middle-of-nowhere Alaska. He’s known as the Wildlife Whisperer, and I want to photograph him in action. He’s reluctant at first, but I can be persuasive.

Soon enough I have him in bed saying yes over and over and over again, but my ability to shoot and scoot is frozen by a Denali snowstorm.

Jamie: I always thought of myself as the marrying type. Until I got left at the altar. Now I have a new motto: never commit and never fall in love. So when a cocky nature photographer decides I’m the key to his next masterpiece, it seems like the perfect arrangement: the hotshot’s only in town for a brief assignment and then he’ll be gone. No commitment, no strings, and no chance of getting my heart broken again.

There’s just one problem: I think I’m falling in love. Now I’m afraid that maybe I’m the marrying type after all. And he definitely is not.

While it can also be read on its own, Taming Teddy is the second in the new Made Marian series. Each book tells the story of one of the Marian brothers’ search for true love. The first in the series, Borrowing Blue, is available now.

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Theodore Kodiak just wants to take some pictures of the man who seems to be an animal whisperer.
Jamie keeps brushing the other man off because he doesn’t want his picture taken with the animals. He has his reasons.
Teddy shows up anyway, the 2 get snowed in and I’m sure you can guess what starts then.
The 2 agree on no strings. If youve been following along, we have already learned poor jamie was left at the alter so he is not in the mood for a relationship now or ever for that matter. Thats perfect because Teddy is a playboy. A love em and leave em before anyone can catch feelings. It works for him until it doesn’t anymore but Jamie has been burned so many times. Teddy is going to have to show him hes not going anywhere. Jamie is stubborn af so Teddy is going to have to try extra hard to prove to the other man hes in it for the long haul.

Happy Pride Month everyone!  Twinsie Tenise here. I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who took the time to answer the questions for our pride month celebration. I thought hard about the questions and had fun coming up with them. I love that the authors seemed to have as much fun answering them. We will be celebrating all month with author spotlights  as well as reviews for some of the LGBTQIA  books we’ve read this year.  Check back daily to learn more about that days featured author or book and add to your TBR piles. I hope you enjoy getting to know a little about all of these wonderful authors and their work.

I’ve known Savanna for over a decade. We only get to see each other one weekend a year at Writers On The River but it never fails to be an amazing time. I look forward to her giant squeeze hugs as well as the wonderful conversations we have at the after party. She is an amazing friend and I love her to pieces!

Blue: When my ex walks into the resort bar with his new husband on his arm, I want nothing more than to prove to him that I’ve moved on. Thankfully, the sexy stranger sitting next to me is more than willing to share a few kisses in the name of revenge. It gets even better when those scorching kisses turn into a night of fiery passion.

The only problem? Turns out the stranger’s brother is marrying my sister later this week.

Tristan: I have one rule: no messing with the guests at my vineyard resort. Of course the one exception I make turns out to be the brother of the woman my brother’s about to marry. Now we’re stuck together for a week of wedding activities, and there’s no avoiding the heat burning between us.

So fine, we make a deal: one week. One week to enjoy each other’s bodies and get it out of our system. Once the bride and groom say I do and we become family, it’ll all be over between us. Right?

Fair warning: Blue and Tristan’s story contains smoking hot scenes of man parts touching, pee-in-pants descriptions of grannies cursing, and the sweet improbability of two strangers finding their happily ever after when they least expect it.

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Blue shows up for his sister’s wedding week and runs into his ex and his new man. Feeling sorry for himself he decides to drink away his problems. Enter sexy as all get out Tristian. He offers himself as a fake boyfriend. Tristian who I should probably mention is also straight.
I didn’t buy his straight story from jump because NO MAN kisses a man they way he did Blue, is straight. Not possible. The book had a couple villians that kept the angst at a good level. The meddling older people in the family were freaking hilarious.