Heath and Vanner are trying hard to keep their family together without giving away their secrets, but when Heath’s friend Lucy barges in on them making love, it seems that everything is going to be exposed.
But before they can come to terms with Lucy knowing not only about their relationship, but about their sister Marybeth as well, they find out that someone else knows about Marybeth, someone who isn’t a friend.
Can they rescue Marybeth without exposing themselves further?
Willa Okati (AKA Will, AKA Daniel) is made of many things: imagination, coffee, stray cat hairs, daydreams, more coffee, kitchen experimentation, a passion for winter weather, a little more coffee, a whole lot of flowering plants and a lifelong love of storytelling. Will's definitely one of the quiet ones you have to watch out for, though he -- not she anymore -- is a lot less quiet these days.
Again I have the same complains as for the second book. Seriously, when Vanner started with 'how could I be with Heath and left Marybeth alone in the other room' I wanted to smack him upside the head. Hard. And the situation isn't resolved at the end: what would they do with their lives, Marybeth, Lucy (who looked suspiciously like Mary Sue at times)? With Sidney (who I expected to twirl his moustache, so caricaturishly evil he was)? The ending was way too abrupt.
But damn, I loved what little was about purely Heath and Vanner! I wish there was more about them, because that's was really awesome.
With this novella ends the series of Heath and Vanner. Actually more than a series, the three novellas tell few days in the life of these two twin brothers who in few hours discover to be in love and that their world is crushing around them.
Heath has always been in love with his twin Vanner, and probably he chose the unstable life of rodeo men only to be near him. Vanner is a difficult man, he has great problem to express his feelings, but Vanner sees everything. To their problem of being gay in a world as the rodeo circuit that is not exactly accepting, you have to add also the fact that the twin are the only relatives alive of Marybeth, their older sister who has the mind of a child: if social services find out that they are dragging around a woman in that condition, they will probably take her from them.
The world in which Vanner and Heath are living, it's not the dreamy world of the rodeo circuit of romance; it's a dirty world, made of cheap motel and lack of money, a world in which they struggle even for a meal. And now their sponsor, a vicious man, is blackmailing both Heath and Vanner to have sex in exchange of his silence on them being gay. So no, this is not a light series of sexy cowboys written to entice the fantasy of romantic heart. But Vanner and Heath's relationship is so deep that their bond comes out from the pages in full strenght, like a punch in the gut.
In this last book, Vanner and Heath seal the last knot on their relationship, take the last step towards a direction without return. After this book, they will be no more able to forget and move on. It's an intense and moving story, that I believe it's better read one story after the other, to appreciate in full the strenght and impact of two not simple but very true characters.
The thing that made this book have 2 stars was the ending. It was soo abrupt. All this build up...and no satisfying resolution.Maybe a 4th book would fix that. I dunno.