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Story of Trust & Healing.

Loved this story of Mira & Chase. Stephanie Rowe writes stories of people that have suffered through so much damage, some mental, some physical. She shows us that whatever the damage is there can be healing with the right friends or lovers if you can open your heart to trusting others. ( )

Once I started this I didn’t want to put it down. Stephanie Rowe kicks off a new series based in Rogue Valley, Wyoming and it’s about a group of brothers that lived through hell in their childhood years but from that pain forged a tight bond between them. That past also made them leery of women and they each vowed to never marry or let a women ever get close enough to hurt them.

Story starts out at a funeral. AJ had always had two best friends, one male and one female. Neither of them had met during the 10 years AJ was friends with them both. Their first meeting unfortunately was at AJ’s funeral where Chase Stockton realized that Mira Cabot – the person he’d been fantasizing about for 10 years – needed his help. Since he felt like he own a huge debt to AJ for past deeds he decides he is going to protect Mira by inviting her to come back to his ranch in Wyoming so he could both protect her from AJ’s evil dad and to help her with the situation she found herself in.

Chase and Mira came from such different childhoods. Mira had two loving parents that doted on her and had no problem taking in her young friend when they saw he had a controlling and abusive father. But all of that was ripped from her when an accident immediately took the life of her father and eventually her mother. During a moment of grief when her mother passed AJ and Mira consoled each other which left Mira with child. Now that AJ is gone Mira knows that AJ’s Dad if he ever found out would do everything within his power to take her child away from her. Chase childhood was filled with abuse. His father went on to sire many children with different women who all suffered the same abuse. A lot of that abuse was mostly a direct cause from the women their father was married to at the time. This caused each of the boys to not trust women and left them very cynical about life. But one thing they never strayed from was their love for one another.

Chase and Mira had some big demons to put to rest before anything could come of their attraction. They had the sexual part of their relationship down pat but Mira didn’t want to put her heart out there because everyone she’s ever cared about has either died and left her or just left her. Chase is torn between his feelings for Mira and his vow and commitment to his brothers who aren’t happy with a woman being on their ranch.

We get to meet quite of few of the brothers – especially the two that the next two books will be about – and I fell in love with each of them even though they have some pretty big chips on their shoulders. I’m ready to read their stories now!! Really liked this first book in what looks to be a great series. ( )