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Book Blurb

A familiar road can still be full of surprises.

Joe Jacek loves his life for the most part. All he ever wanted to do was be a rancher, and that’s what he’s doing. He feels bad that his father didn’t leave the ranch to him and his brother Trent both, but Joe would never short his brother out of his inheritance. Lucky for them, they’re close brothers. They like to hang out in the evenings, get stupid then get on with work the next day.

But it can be a lonely life. While Trent is a great brother, he can’t be everything for Joe, and vice versa. Joe would like to get laid sometimes, and living where he does, that’s a rare occurrence. So he drinks and does a little something else now and then. It’s all good—he’s just relaxing.

He knows the road between his house and Trent’s trailer like he knows his own soul. Turning off the headlights one night just to make the drive more exciting isn’t a big deal.

Until a werewolf jumps on his truck. Then the rules for everything change.

Reader Advisory: This books contains BDSM and references to past physical abuse and assault.

 

Book Review

I admit that the reason for me to want to read this book was the author’s name, not the blurb (which is more than a little misleading, if not outright confusing). I enjoyed Bailey Bradford’s previous shifter worlds, I’m always up for exploring another one, and I suspected there’d be a lot of heat in this story. I am happy to report that I found the shifter world in this book (and its sequel ‘Texas and Tarantulas’) interesting, the characters unusual and very likeable, and the heat? Kinky and off the charts.

Joe is a Texas rancher through and through. He loves the land, and he loves the ranch he inherited from his father. He even loved the father who “disciplined” him physically when he was a kid and, from the sound of it, quite harshly. All in the interest of making Joe a man. Ahem. Even though Joe inherited all of the ranch, for reasons he would rather not think about, he insists on sharing it with his younger brother Trent. And then one night a wolf jumps onto his truck and everything changes.

Diego is on the run. He is his pack’s omega and, in this world, that makes him everyone’s punching bag and sexual toy to play with. The wolves are extremely cruel in this world, and think nothing of killing their own children if that will keep them in power. Diego is used to the treatment and has been taught that is all he is good for, but one day he breaks and runs. Now he has nowhere to go and he knows they will catch and kill him. He just isn’t ready to let that happen. Then he sees Joe on a ranch near Uvalde, Texas, and his world is turned upside-down.

These two men may come from different worlds, but they are made for each other. Joe is a big strong cowboy who likes to play rough games in the bedroom, but he is a big softie inside who will only kill mosquitoes and flies. And even then, he’d rather not. He has no clue shifters even exist, and Diego isn’t supposed to tell him, but once the secret is out, Joe changes. He will do anything to protect Diego. Diego may look like a bid bag wolf when he is shifted, and he is incredibly strong to have withstood the years and years of abuse his pack put him through, but he has no self-confidence and very little self-esteem when he first arrives on Joe’s ranch. That, too, changes over time, but it isn’t easy.

If you prefer your shifters to be of the “big bad wolf” persuasion rather than the “fluffy” kind, if you enjoy seeing two men having to struggle for understanding each other and their worlds, and if you’re looking for an adventure filled with tension and very hot and kinky bedroom action, then you will probably like this novel.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook and print
Length	Novel, 68117 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	01-August-2014
Price	$5.50 ebook, $10.50 paperback
Buy Link	https://www.pride-publishing.com/book/dark-nights-and-headlights