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Tess Rogers grew up in the midst of chaos and uncertainty, but she always knew one thing to be true—one day six hundred acres of prime farmland would be hers. Then she discovers not even that truth can be counted on. Tess's stepfather has kept important secrets, and Tess's dream of breeding a line of organic dairy cows suddenly goes up in a burst of smoke and flame.
R. Clayton Sutter is an expert at managing just about anything—money, businesses, and people. Getting NorthAm Fuel's newest shale refinery operational in the rolling hills of Upstate New York shouldn’t be much of a challenge, but then, she hadn't counted on dealing with vandalism, petitions, and a woman she’d never expected to see again—one who still haunts her dreams.
When Tess and Clay square off on opposite sides of the heated debate, past and present collide in a battle of wills and unbidden desire.
- Sales Rank: #256579 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-11-16
- Released on: 2013-11-16
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
Abby Craden is a professional actress and voice artist who can be heard in numerous TV and radio commercials, video games, and audiobooks. An AudioFile Earphones Award winner as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2012, Abby is an award-winning stage actress and a resident artist with the prestigious theater A Noise Within.
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
trite action plot and the same ol' tired butch
By kindle reader
All the story elements here are basically a mutation of When Dreams Tremble. Flaws included. Yet I liked WDT much more. Rad allowed a very mediocre Farmers vs. Corporate plot to dominate the romance here. Rad knows how to plot a story, but they aren't clever and her action sequences are trite B movie quality and bore me to no end. Mostly I don't mind so long as the action doesn't overshadow the romance... because the romance is her real talent. But it's not enough the focus here and I found myself skimming.
For the most part, lead chemistry is neglected here and the romance seems inserted as an afterthought and isn't carefully laid out or given the vision and mojo it properly deserved. I actually wanted Tess and Clay's hot bodyguard to hook up... Ella was more interesting than either of these leads and should have been Tess's leading lady. But alas, she's too femme, sorta (blonde, but Xena-esque). And Rad doesn't do femme/femme leads even when they are organically drawn to each other on their own. So we get one more Rad butch- who looks and acts like all her other butches- shoved down our throats once again. I did like Tess. With more description she'd of been really, really appealing. However, Rad rarely does her femmes justice. Rarely does she describe any lead well beyond her butches' flexing muscles and their hot sinewy bods.
Surprisingly, the first sex scene was pretty hot, but before that I didn't care if these leads got together at all. If there was any sex after that, I've already forgotten it. And I still think her characters talk too damn much in the bedroom. The best scene in this whole book is Tess standing in her bedroom with her shirt off. Finally. A sexy scene that does not involve Rad's-- er, Clay's sinewy muscles.
So here we have Farmer Tess. She basically runs her dairy farm on her own in upstate New York and wants to transition into an organic dairy farm. The organic farming bit was interesting and I wish that had been more of a focus. Tess is a lesbian but has become some kind of hermit over the years and rarely dates. Her heart hasn't been given away since Clay Sutter stole it one summer at the lake. First love. Teenage love. Clay disappears at the height of their passion without a word. Fifteen years later Clay breaks the silence and shows up on her motorcycle in a leading role with the big bad corporation that wants to drill on the local farm land. Tess, of course, is still heart broken and pissed... but Clay's hard, sinewy muscles cannot go unnoticed. For someone with an organic dairy farm ambition, she sure doesn't fight too hard to stop the drilling and possible contamination... so long as Clay is willing to drill her. Is that a cell phone in your pocket or... lol. Just how many times do Rad "femmes" dig into the butch's pocket to find something "hard" there? lol. Unfortunately, they always come up empty because Rad butches NEVER pack!!! lol. So sad. Someone is still stuck in 1972. Which probably doesn't matter as Rad's butches are usually bottomy little girls in the bedroom anyway. But I digress....
I just couldn't understand why these two don't talk for 15 years. I don't care what reasons are provided in the story... it was as lame as When Dreams Tremble, which also had a 15 year separation for no good reason at all... other than romances often rely on leads to have the emotional development and communication skills of little children, as another reviewer so aptly put it. Purely unimaginative. And unredeemable. I never forgave Clay and wanted Tess and Ella to hook up. Ella is supposed to be Clay's loyal bodyguard and assistant, but she sure doesn't mind moving in on her woman. Kind of contrived there. Even so, this blonde was interesting and original and I wanted her to have the spotlight. But she is quickly blotted out and then briefly resurfaces and blotted out again and the connections here just run hot and cold and convoluted. Who does Rad want me to care about?
I really felt like Rad was more interested in the bland farm/corporation plot (and the farm on the cover is actually a picture of Rad's own farm). And her hard, sinewy butch. But you can't plop paragraph after paragraph of lust for Clay's hard, sinewy muscles and expect that to fly for chemistry. meh. This butch was tired and weak and the name "Clay" is far too masculine for my tastes. And sometimes, I just hate Rad's arrogant, womanizing butches. Who finds those qualities attractive?? Yes, Tess's thoughts are filled with lust for Clay's hard, sinewy bod, but those are magical Mt. Lesbos Rad pheromones at work and she doesn't really have a choice. It's more like an enchantment.
Rad's butches, in my opinion, are little more than narcissistic author selfies... a repeated alter ego indulgence the reader must ultimately bear. The final effect is a boring one with no original leads. This one is a clone of Dev Webber from WDT... but more charming (of course). Even the story characters say they looked alike. With similar comments about Tess and Lesley (they all knew each other in their teens and were at the lake together). See, even Rad's own characters are starting to realize they're all clones!!!! ahaha.... I think Rad had a "new" idea about farmers and drilling corporations and then she just recycled the characters from WDT by switching a few qualities and jobs. And it shows.
meh.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Where true love trumps all the odds and the years!
By J Johnson
Two teenage lovers come face to face more than fifteen years after having been separated. What was initially one amazing summer at the ‘lake’, that is Lake George NY, became home to a host of painful memories and a sense of abandonment. Adding to one of the main gal's trials and tribulations, there is an awful dry spell plaguing the farm country near the lake and then a second wave assault by NorthAm Fuels from the specter of their drills. Fracking might become a reality in this farm country. Uh-oh, the battle lines are drawn!
Tess Rodgers is trying to get her dairy farm qualified as ‘organic’. This is a long and difficult process, but it has always been one of Tess’s dreams. Tess has kind of accepted that she is married to her farm. It is a hard life, but it is what she wants to do. Also in her heart is the memory of a dynamic and dashing lover with whom she’d hoped to share her life but instead she left a painful hole. During the interactions and confrontations with NorthAm, Tess learns more than she ever wanted to know about her stepfather and her former lover from the ‘lake’. I really liked Tess as she now has an impressive backbone while not losing her heart or her desires!
Clay, R. Clayton Sutter, is Vice President of Operations for NorthAm Fuels and sole heir. She gets shunted to New York’s Hudson Valley to smooth and pave the way for an important drilling operation. Oh my, this assignment comes with way more subterfuge, physical assaults, and painful memories than she might have anticipated. Clay has most of the skills she needs to clear the way so NorthAm can establish a foothold. However, coming face to face with her teenage summer love could prove her undoing. Clay is a complicated, yet compassionate woman with some heavy-duty regrets. Things are never dull when Clay is on the scene!
Tess was badly treated by her stepfather and Clay by her father. Yet, they were able to step up to the plate producing impressive accomplishments in their individual lives. Now, there is an opportunity to mend some serious heartache, but the road to that success is strewn with obstacles. I really liked my time in Hudson Valley. I should mention the sex is totally hot! I recommend you make the trip to Tess’s stomping grounds currently invaded by Clay! Rather satisfying!
NOTE: This book was provided by Bold Strokes Books for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Eh...She has better books
By Kitsilver
2.5 The writing is decent, what you'd expect from all Radclyffe novels. But the passion and tension and romantic development is lacking in this one.
Eh. I like Radclyffe's books for the passion of her characters and the excitement of her stories. The Honor series up to book 5-6 (that's as far as I've gone) had action, excitement, real sexual chemistry, tension. Love's Masquerade was one of my favorites because the writing was poignant, and nothing like the real possibility of death and first love to light one's fire.
But this book. I felt it lacked the potency of her other works. The lead characters Clay and Tess didn't have that much chemistry, and more attention was paid to fracking and oil and how to run an organic dairy farm and worrying about rain, than to their romance and how it developed. Basically they were lovers as teenagers, they separate for years, and are reunited when they face off on opposite sides of a fracking/farming rights battle. I thought the premise would be interesting but the chemistry between the two really was lacking. I also wanted Tess to hook up with Elle, the hot Nordic bodygyard, instead. And Clay felt like a character I had seen before, the muscled motorcycle riding lesbian who is amazingly accomplished and sexy and rich and can sleep with anyone she likes but her one flaw is that she has a domineering father. And the sex scene when it came felt forced, like it was inserted because its 2/3 of the way into the book, and not because the characters earned it. I just wasn't feeling the romance between the two of them and I also found myself skimming at the end.
Good things: you can tell she did her research on fracking and farming and what that means to small rural communities. I like that, and had looked forward to seeing a romance in this setting.
The problem: There just wasn't much of a romance to be had.
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