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Book Blurb

Dating is hard enough. Throw in an incontinent Chihuahua, an unrequited love affair, a severe case of social anxiety disorder, a dying father, and a man-eating hog and it becomes darned near impossible. Still, it takes two to tango—and when Tom Morgan, a mild-mannered assistant bank manager with a debilitating case of shyness, meets Frank Wells, who is straight off the farm and even shyer than he is, sparks start flying.

Just when Tom and Frank’s burgeoning love affair is rolling along nicely, Frank must return to Indiana to oversee the farm while his father battles cancer. Tom tags along to help Frank out and finds himself slopping hogs and milking cows and wondering what the hell happened to his orderly citified existence. And what’s with all the chickens? Tom hates chickens!

With Frank’s help, Tom grits his teeth and muddles through. Funny what a couple of guys can accomplish when they’re crazy about each other. Not even nine hundred chickens can stand in the way of true love.

Book Review

This book delivers what the cover promises: a hilarious telling of a city boy's adventure on a farm in the countryside. It actually delivers a whole lot more as well, but the crux of it is that Tom has no real interest in farming, yet he doesn't want to let the love of his life go off and deal with the inherited mess on his own. So he follows. With hilarious consequences – even though Tom would probably call them disastrous. And, to a point, they are. Luckily, humans are flexible and can adapt, and Tom's position a few months later is a prime example of that.

Tom is a bank manager. Shy doesn’t begin to describe him, and he lets his customers and his boss walk all over him. He just doesn’t have it in him to stand up to the man's sometimes truly unreasonable demands. His social life is in worse shape, since he hates going out and meeting new people, never mind men, is not his forte.

Frank moves to the city and may be even shier than Tom. He is also straight off his father's farm, but things with Tom seem to be going well. When his dying father causes him to have to go back, he is amazed but happy that Tom comes with him. He knows how to handle himself on a farm, and tries to teach Tom, but this is not an easy process. Tom's issues (and the way he describes the situations he gets himself into) made me laugh out loud, and I suspect Frank did the same. He hides it well from Tom though, which I think is as it should be. Tom was trying very hard!

Not even Frank's nasty, interfering brother can stop these two from slowly building a life on the farm. A few mysterious hints about the will later, all hell breaks lose, and both Tom and Frank have their hands full. If you like a lot of humor with your romance, if you enjoy reading about two shy guys slowly learning to trust and love each other, and if you think the setting on a farm, including a man-eating hog and nine hundred chickens sound like fun, you will probably enjoy this books as much as I did.

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook, print and audio
Length	Novel, 256 pages/87113 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	30-November-2012
Price	$6.99 ebook, $16.99 paperback, $16.99 bundle, $19.95 audiobook
Buy Link	https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/shy-by-john-inman-4874-b