Title: Riding & Regrets
Series: Mossy Glenn Ranch 05
Author: Bailey Bradford
Genre: Contemporary Western
Length: Novel (206 pages)
ISBN: 9780857156884
Publisher: Totally Bound (April 4th, 2014)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥ 4 Hearts
Reviewer: Cat
Blurb: This is book five in the Mossy Glenn Ranch series. See the full series listing here https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=mossy+glenn+series
Jody Bates just wanted to fit in and forget his past, but you can’t escape everything.
Jody Bates had a hard life as a kid, but he’s moved past that and is making a home for himself at the Mossy Glenn. Sometimes he smarts off, but he’s young, and he’s learning.
What he hasn’t learned yet is that you can never completely escape your past.
Jody has a few blank spots, things he can’t quite remember. Like many kids, he did some stupid things and figures he’s lucky to have come out relatively unscathed. Sure, there’s a scar here and there, but on the whole, he’s doing just fine.
But something that happened brings about an enormous change in his life. Jody finds himself with a kid he didn’t know he’d fathered, and memories trying to surface about the drug-filled night the child had to have been conceived. Jody, at twenty, is overwhelmed and more scared than he’s ever been in his life.
Noel Cuthbert needed a change. He was tired of the bar scene, tired of being dumped. He seemed to have a six-month expiration date per relationship. The last guy almost broke him in many ways, and moving across the country had sounded like a brilliant idea when he’d first thought of it.
Now he’s in Ashville, Montana, and his Aunt Gertie is doing everything she can to talk him into staying. She needs his help, and Noel needs to be needed.
And he’s never seen anyone who needs him more than the young man who walks into Gertie’s day care with a screaming baby on his hip.
Reader Advisory: This book contains reference to rape.
Purchase Link: https://www.totallybound.com/riding-and-regrets
Review: This is book five in this series. I think it stands alone pretty well though you may be curious as to some of the other characters.
This book is about Jody. Jody has been working at the Mossy Glenn for a little while. He had recently come out and he and Frankie had been fooling around when Jody’s sister had dropped of an almost three-year-old child telling him it was his and that he was still dead to his family. Of course, the bosses of the ranch Carlos, Troy and Will were very acceptable and helpful. Jody meets Noel at the day care he chooses for Prissy and they become friends quickly.
For those of you not familiar with this series it centers on the Mossy Glenn ranch, a very gay friendly ranch. Each book features a different character and has several of the previous ones and ongoing ones interact in each book. You may wonder how a series has different takes on gay cowboys, keeps it pretty sweet, very hot and sexy yet, fresh and interesting each time, but Bailey Bradford is a master at it. Each book is very different though keeping to her style.
I really liked Noel. He isn’t the cowboy but a love interest and also a vegetarian. I absolutely adored Prissy and the baby talk added even more charm to an already charming series. I do have one complaint. The action or conflict that was Noels was resolved in a wham, bam, thank you ma’am style. It built up slow then all of a sudden, it was resolved. I’d have liked a bit more intrigue or it not felt so easy. Just my personal opinion, it didn’t ruin the story for me. I was left with several unanswered questions (sorry I can’t say what without spoilers) I am hoping they will be answered in the next book.
If you like sweet, sexy stories, featuring hot gay cowboys, cute babies, a bit of drama, lots of charm and some hot mansex this is definitely for you!
I received a free copy of this book through MM Good Book Reviews for an honest review.