Release Review: Wild At Heart: Riley Hart and Christina Lee
Wild At Heart
Riley Hart and Christina Lee
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Release Date April 24, 2024
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BISHOP SULLIVAN
I’ve always known what my future had in store: inheriting the family ranch and having myself a wife and kids to carry on the Sullivan name. Porter Dixon never factored into those plans. We may have spent our teenage years sneaking away to lose ourselves in each other, but he always held me at arm’s length…until the day he up and left without so much as a goodbye.
PORTER DIXON
After everything I’ve lost in my life, it’s important that I keep myself tightly guarded. Especially around Bishop Sullivan. Dad would be rolling in his grave if he found out I was shacking up with a Sullivan, given the bad blood between our families. But eleven years after leaving, I’m back in Laurel Springs with something to prove: I don’t need the Sullivans, nor their land.
Except, damn it all, Bishop has this way of burrowing under my armor. The magnetic draw between us is still too hard to ignore, and what starts out as boss and ranch hand quickly turns into stolen moments and simmering encounters that make it hard to stay angry.
I want to think that love can conquer all and tame my wild heart…but the past isn’t so easy to forget.
Bishop Sullivan is the heir to large ranch and the perfect son of an affluent family. He is a dependable, capable, and loyal boss. He has been married but his most significant relationship was the one that left him without answers over a decade ago.
Porter Dixon was raised under the losing side of their family history and ended up with no land and limited resources. He has always been broody, guarded, impulsive, and hot-headed. But when he lived on the Sullivan ranch as a teen, he and Bishop had a hot secret affair. But circumstances and miscommunication caused Porter to take off and leave them both broken-hearted but also unaware of the depth of the other's feelings.
Now eleven years later, Porter is back on the Sullivan ranch. He has gained ranch experience and is a horse whisperer. New Boss Bishop is now face to face with the one that got away. It's easy to fall back into a secretive affair, but will they admit how much their hearts are involved this time. Bishop is a man with a lot of responsibility and has never shared his sexuality with anyone but Porter. And Porter has a wild untamed heart and never really felt completely safe and like he had a true home. Can Sully be the one who fully embraces it and tames it?
My heart broke for these guys for what they lost and how afraid they were to trust again and hope for something more in the future. This is a teenage lovers and first loves, second chance, hurt-comfort-boss-employee, secret, cowboy romance about trust, vulnerability, and finding where you belong. There are plenty of colorful side characters adding depth and drama and even the horses have important roles. I would love to see more with some of them but this is also an enjoyable stand-alone story that had me invested in the characters and the rich ranch setting.
My heart broke for these guys for what they lost and how afraid they were to trust again and hope for something more in the future. This is a teenage lovers and first loves, second chance, hurt-comfort-boss-employee, secret, cowboy romance about trust, vulnerability, and finding where you belong. There are plenty of colorful side characters adding depth and drama and even the horses have important roles. I would love to see more with some of them but this is also an enjoyable stand-alone story that had me invested in the characters and the rich ranch setting.
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Riley Hart's love of all things romance shines brightly in everything she writes. Her primary focus is Male/Male romance but under various pen names, her prose has touched practically every part of the spectrum of love and relationships. The common theme that ties them all together is stories told from the heart.
A hopeless romantic herself, Riley is a lover of character-driven plots, many with flawed and relatable characters. She strives to create stories that readers can not only fall in love with, but also see themselves in. Real characters and real love blended together equal the ultimate Riley Hart experience.
When Riley isn't creating her next story, you can find her reading, traveling, or dreaming about reading or traveling, spending time with her two snarky kids, and swoony husband.
Riley Hart is represented by Jane Dystel at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret Literary Management. She's a 2019 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Of Sunlight and Stardust.
Mother, wife, reader, dreamer. Christina lives in the Midwest with her husband and son–her two favorite guys. She’s addicted to lip balm, coffee, and kissing. Because everything is better with kissing.
She writes mostly MM Contemporary as well as Adult and New Adult Romance. She believes in happily-ever-afters for all, so reading and writing romance for everybody under the rainbow helps quench her soul.
If you’d like to keep up with her on a daily basis, join her reader group on Facebook called The Swoon Room. Or join her newsletter to be notified of sales and/or new releases.
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