Fingerprints and Muddy Feet by Carol Lynne

18885796Title:Fingerprints and Muddy Feet

Series:  Cattle Valley 30

Author:Carol Lynne

Genre: Contemporary/Western/Ménage

Length: Novella (87 pages)

Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing (December 20th, 2013) Available now for early download.

Heat Level: Explicit

Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 5 Hearts

Reviewer: Cat

Blurb: This is book thirty in the Cattle Valley series; see the full series listing here

Making room for two children in a busy household won’t be easy, but leave it to Nate, Ryan and Rio to do it with plenty of laughter and tears along the way.

At the age of eighteen, Nate Gills was forced out of his family for being gay. With hush money in his pocket and anger in his heart, Nate fled Washington DC for Chicago to start a new life. Although he eventually found love with two wonderful men, he buried his feelings of abandonment behind a façade of confidence.

When a horrific accident takes the lives of his younger brother and sister-in-law, Nate is forced to revisit the emotions he’d worked so hard to bury. In a twist of fate, Nate is named guardian of a niece and nephew he’s never met, putting him into direct conflict with the father who shunned him so many years earlier.

Will the threesome who have spent years enjoying sexual pleasure whenever and wherever the mood struck, be able to adjust to having two children in the house? Or will they lose their relationship along the way?

Purchase Link: https://www.totallybound.com/fingerprints-and-muddy-feet?search=Fingerprints%20And%20Muddy%20Feet

Review: This is book 30 in this series. Trust me this is my first one, and it stood alone perfectly. But, I sure do want to read them all. I just have to figure how to find the time since if they are like this one, you won’t want to put the book down once you start. Then you will want to read the next one. So, perhaps a week of reading vacation is in order.

Nate gets word that his brother and sister-in-law both die in a plane crash and that his sister-in-law has named him as guardian of their kids and estate. This opens some old wounds that Nate had let fester over and buried.  Being in a three-man relationship with two very different types of lovers can they survive bringing two young children into the fold and can Nate deal with the reopening of old wounds at the same time?

Oh wow, is this book awesome! I loved all the characters, main and supporting and can’t wait to get hold of this entire series to learn more about each of them. I found Nate, Rio and Ryan extremely intriguing and the small hints of their past made me really want to read the rest of these books.  But for now, I will focus on the present with these men.

I found this one of the best three men ménages I’ve read in a while. It doesn’t seem to focus on one person, yet it doesn’t seem overly easy, and shows a twinge of jealousy and real emotions. They have been together long enough to know each other’s quirks and needs.  They break off into pairs and make love; not always just the three, they change positions, and they do things alone, all of this made it feel more real for me.

I liked how it did cover all three men’s viewpoints and didn’t feel too jumpy and it showed the kids feelings and emotions also. I did think the kids accepted things a bit too easily, but Hannah not being super accepting helped there. I also liked that Ryan voiced his opinions and fears to Rio that he really didn’t want kids, but he wanted to try to make their relationship work. I loved the realism and realistic feelings, while still very sexy and hot. Speaking of hot, some of these sex scenes you need a fire extinguisher they are so hot, yet very tasteful. Kudos to the author for that!

I can’t think of a thing I didn’t like or would want different. This is definitely my kind of book, loving, heartfelt, emotional, yet real enough to be believable and extremely hot and sexy and tasteful.

I recommend this if you like long series, different characters, cowboys (yippee), mayors, sheriffs, (ah, men in uniforms) children, loving relationships, ménage and very hot sensual tasteful mansex.