THE EARL’S WRANGLER by Andrew Grey
Fiction, Contemporary Romance, M/M (gay)
3***
Blurb: When Randall Whealton, Earl of Plymouth, loses a bet to his friend the Duke of Northumberland, he pays the spend a month with him and Alan at Alan’s family ranch in Wyoming. It’s the last thing he wants to do, but pride and honor won’t let him back down. Cattle wrangler Sawyer Kincaid works with livestock and horses at the Justice ranch. The job suits him—animals he understands, but people are a whole different ball game. And the stuffy Englishman Alan and George bring with them is among the worst of the snooty, stuck-up… and hot as hell. A combination Sawyer is determined to ignore. Sawyer works hard, and he’s good at his job, but Randall always thinks he knows better. Sawyer would love to kick his ass back across the pond… until an outing at the local watering hole when with hands from another ranch decide to show Randall who’s boss. Ranch hands stand up for each other, and Sawyer finds himself defending Randall and later nursing his injuries. That buried attraction flares to life—but it could just as easily burn out once Randall’s time in Wyoming is up.
THOUGHTS: This is the third in the Cowboy Nobility Series and fits in very well with the other two. There must be something about the ranch in Wyoming that draws the British nobility in – or maybe it’s just the hunky men there. When Randall, an Earl in England, loses a bet and is forced to spend a couple of weeks on the ranch in Wyoming, he’s in for a lot more than he bargained for. Sawyer, a wrangler on the ranch in charge of the barn and horses, isn’t impressed by the snooty Brit and has him mucking out stalls and doing other dirty work. But as the week goes on, something happens between the two young men as they commiserate over terrible fathers they had and enjoy working the horses. When Sawyer’s father gets in deep with mobsters and threatens Sawyer, Randall hauls him over the pond to his estates where they find out that working a ranch or an estate aren’t really that different from each other. As Sawyer helps Randall become more at ease with working the estate, the two men form a deep connection.
While I loved Sawyer and Randall, there were a few questions I still had about them when the story ended. I will note that the blurb doesn’t do the story justice, so take it with a grain of salt. The sex scenes are hot and fit well with the story and the HEA ending was sweet and satisfying. So if you like your cowboys hot and your British royalty hotter, pick this one up. You won’t be disappointed.
Recommended.
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