Wyoming Rugged
2015
- billionaires
- man-woman relationships
- fiction / romance / contemporary
- ranch life
- fiction
- fiction, romance, western
- wyoming, fiction
- nyt:mass-market-paperback=2015-12-13
- may-december romances
The story
"Billionaire oilman Blair Coleman has always taken care of his business. After having been used and cast aside by a woman he thought he loved, his personal life is far from his first priority. He knows only one has ever truly cared for him--but the irresistible blonde beauty is the daughter of his best friend. Niki Ashton has seen her father's friend wounded and she's seen him fight. Blair is the strongest--and most stubborn--man she's ever known. That very heart and passion makes him the man of her dreams, but whenever they've been in danger of getting close, Blair has always pushed her away. It takes a possible tragedy to strip away all of Blair's misgivings. Now it's all or nothing: marriage, baby, family, forever. But will the choice be too much for Niki ... or too late?"--
What it’s like
Wide, sun-bleached Wyoming ranch country sets the tone here: big skies, open pasture, dusty pickups and sprawling oil-money houses, with the quiet of a working landscape giving way to the warmth of small-town gatherings. The voice is brisk and warm, leaning on dialogue and interior thought, with scenes of banter, stubborn pride and simmering attraction stacked one after another. Vibe: old-fashioned, swoony, comfortable, with a slow-burn tension that never turns cold. It suits a lazy weekend afternoon, a long-haul flight, or a comfort read when you want romance without grit. Intensity is mild: some danger and a crisis that threatens a character's safety, with brief moments of physical peril, but no graphic violence and only restrained romantic and sexual content, mostly implied. For readers who want a grown-up, emotionally driven love story with a Western setting and a strong, flawed hero who has to learn to open up, especially fans of May-December-adjacent age gaps and billionaire romance.
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