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Duncan McLeish owns a ranch. Unlike most ranches, this one is in the Scottish Highlands. Having inherited a failing farm from his grandfather, he turns it into a successful business. He has friends and he loves his home, but he’s lonely, and not even infrequent trips to Glasgow and Edinburgh slake that thirst to find someone. Then Drew Sinclair walks into his life.

Drew Sinclair is tantalizingly close to getting his clothing brand noticed in the industry. He and his business partner, Joy, create individual dresses, while, on the side, Drew produces a line of men’s lingerie. He visits Scotland to design a bridal gown for his sister, Jenna, who is marrying Duncan’s best friend at Christmas.

 

Duncan and Drew have nothing except their Highland upbringing in common, but they say opposites attract, and the attraction is immediate. Is this simply a summer fling, or can two men who live such opposite lives miles away from each other find a way to love?

 

 

Reader Advisory: This book contains references to homophobia and references to death of a character’s parents.

Book Review

As this story shows, cowboys come in all shapes and sizes – and even nationalities. The idea of a Scottish dude ranch made me smile but it works well. The Scottish Highlands, after all, are a great setting for city people to learn about making a living in the countryside, raising cattle, and horse riding. With one main character running McLeish’s Highland Experience, and the other a city boy who is into fashion, there was bound to be an interesting clash of worlds, maybe even a bit of conflict between two ways of seeing and dealing with the world.

Duncan has inherited his farm from his grandfather, his parents having passed away when he was younger. He has also learned a lot of what is acceptable behavior and what it means to be a man from the homophobic family man, and he finds it hard to deal with his own expectations of what he should do – which is almost diametrically opposed to what he feels and what he wants to do. There is more than one awkward moment when Duncan first meets Drew and feels an immediate attraction. But beyond the “why would he be interested in me” and the “he won’t even be here long enough for it to matter”, there is the real question of if Duncan even wants a partner to share his life with.

Drew is out, proud, and won’t hide from anyone. He’s as good at sports as he is at designing dresses, and traveling to the Highlands to design a wedding dress for his sister is no hardship for him. He can’t believe his eyes when he sees Duncan, and Drew has to fight hard to hide his attraction. Not that it takes long for him to figure out he isn’t the only one who has fallen in lust.

With both men liking each other as well as being very compatible in the bedroom, it really shouldn’t be hard for them to get a clue. The potential for happiness doesn’t exactly walk into your life every day, but there are also real differences between how Duncan sees his future and what Drew wants to achieve in his career. Yet, as opposite as they may seem when they first meet, they both soon realize it might just be worth it to reconsider their plans and come up with a new one…

If you like opposites attract stories, if a cowboy in the highlands and an up-and-coming fashion designer from London sound like an interesting couple, and if you’re looking for a read that is entertaining to the point of being very funny, has an interesting Highland setting, and contains some very hot, passionate moments between two men falling in love, then you will probably like this novel.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novel, 196 pages/68859 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	06-June-2017
Price	$3.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.pride-publishing.com/book/my-highland-cowboy