Whether it was due to lack of funds, lack of desire, or one lame excuse after another, Rex Sharpe has managed to ignore the one and only dream he’s ever had: turning his family’s dilapidated old farmhouse into a bed and breakfast. Until now. When his cousin Travis Walker decides to invest in a venture that will help revitalize the small town of Coyote Ridge, Rex knows it’s time to put up or shut … shut up.They say third time’s a charm, right? Jack Cunningham learns that’s not always true. When his world is unexpectedly tipped on its axis, Jack does what he does best. He runs. Only this time, he doesn’t get far. A one-night encounter with a sexy cowboy has Jack’s already topsy-turvy world spinning even more, and he soon learns, it’s only the beginning.
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Rex is one of those books that grab you from the beginning and doesn’t let you go until the end, even though you don’t want it to end. It is so emotionally charged there were times I didn’t think I was going to be able to make it through. Rex and Jack were two people who desperately needed something that they weren’t sure what it was. I loved this book and both Rex and Jack, this was an awesome read and I can’t wait of more.
I really enjoyed Rex and Jack’s story despite wanting to knock their heads together on occasion and wanting to seriously shake Jack! As always, Nicole gives us two strong, real, lovable characters who are not perfect, because nobody is. These two men are both also carrying some serious baggage. But neither one of these sexy men saw the other one coming and what ensues is a battle of wills that takes them on quite the hot yet angsty ride. It took a lot for Rex to trust Jack and a lot for Jack to accept who he really was deep down and exactly what was happening between them. Only after they truly open their hearts, souls and minds, are they able to see the future in each other and let me tell you, that is worth dealing with all the denial and angst.
I love the characters that Nicole Edwards brings us! I love her writing and the sense of family and friendship, support and caring that seems to be the major theme across so many of her stories and we get to experience this again in Rex’s book. He is not a close member in the Walker family, yet they step up and have his back when he needed them to get his dream off the ground.
This story is about two strangers who happen to meet and in that moment an opportunity neither saw coming was going to change both of their lives. Who would have thought that the sexy cowboy and the chatty city boy would have anything in common?
I couldn’t decide if I wanted to hug Rex and Jack or shake some sense into them throughout this book. They were two of the most frustrating characters as they danced around their attraction to each other. It was a step forward and then two back as they slowly came to realize the depth of their feelings.
Rex was struggling with his past as he built towards his future never letting anyone get too close. He didn’t want to be vulnerable and he didn’t know how to fully trust anyone. It took the right man to bring those walls down so he could see the beauty that was on the other side.
What Jack saw as his future took a sudden turn. He had a habit of running from his issues instead of facing them head on. This time he ran into Jack who changed his life. Now he had some big decisions to make as tried to figure out what his new future would look like if he chose the man he really wanted.
I loved these men and their story! Take a chance on this book. I know you will not be disappointed!