Cabin Fever

by B.A. Tortuga

Horace is a loner, a mountain man with a claim to a tiny stream of gold and a lonely cabin in the woods. When he finds young Walker wandering lost in his mountains just before the snow flies, he decides he's found exactly the kind of companionship he craves. Walker is young, naive, and totally unprepared for the kinds of amusements Horace has in store for him. Good thing he's willing to try new things, because Horace has a stern hand and a fine sense of adventure, showing Walker things he'd never dreamed of. But what will come when the spring thaw melts all that snow?

Genres: M M Romance, Historical, BDSM, Gay, Erotica, Romance

116 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2007

About the author

Texan to the bone and an unrepentant Daddy's Girl, BA Tortuga spends her days with her hounds and her beloved wife, texting her grandbabies, and eating Mexican food. When she's not doing that, she's writing. She spends her days off watching rodeo, knitting, and surfing Pinterest in the name of research. Following their own personal joys, BA and Julia heard the call of the high desert and they now live in the New Mexico mountains. BA's personal saviors include her wife, her best friends, and coffee. Lots of coffee. Really good coffee.

Having written everything from fist-fighting rednecks to cowboy daddies to werewolves, BA does her damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which is committed to giving everyone their happily ever after. With books ranging from hard-hitting BDSM, to fiery passions, to the most traditional of love stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her head.

Reviews

[Denise H. · Rating 5 out of 5]

What would you do if you were younger, scared and freezing in the Rocky Mountains and a gruff, huge man with wild reddish hair and beard, and a gun, found you ?
Horace Grady is a rough man,

but he survives his surroundings, while innocent, brown haired Walker Hansom, is just beginning his life's challenges.


Horace takes Walker to his cabin, where they warm the poor young man, and them set about doing chores, like trapping, chopping wood and more. Horace is definitely noticing the soft skin, and wide eyed looks from Walker, and begins his seductive play, and it's exciting. Hot sexy times are growing into spanking, light BDSM and scorching hot, powerful, rough and first times, as they move ahead.

Walker is shocked at first, but slowly grows to accept the wild man.
The writing is well done, with high anticipation, and we get near marathons episodes of sexiness, with survival skills thrown in.
ENJOY !

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[My Dichotomy Life · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would have rated it a little higher but the prose wore me down. It's almost PWP but not quite.

The sex seemed almost formulaic, tick off a list never to repeat.

[Leslie Nicoll · Rating 3 out of 5]

Horace is a loner, a mountain man with a claim to a tiny stream of gold and a lonely cabin in the woods. When he finds young Walker wandering lost in his mountains just before the snow flies, he decides he's found exactly the kind of companionship he craves.

Walker is young, naive, and totally unprepared for the kinds of amusements Horace has in store for him. Good thing he's willing to try new things, because Horace has a stern hand and a fine sense of adventure, showing Walker things he'd never dreamed of. But what will come when the spring thaw melts all that snow?

Review by Leslie H. Nicoll

A short review for a fairly short (33K words) novella.

This isn’t really historical fiction. It’s more like a story that takes place in the old days. The difference? Well, to me, historical fiction should have some history: description of the place, the people, what’s going on in the world and so on. On the other hand, the old days are differentiated from more modern times by things like lack of indoor plumbing and no electricity. But other than that, the time period is really inconsequential to the story. On top of being in the old days, this novella didn’t have much of a plot. The sex wasn’t porn so it didn’t tip all the way into PWP, but it was dancing around the edge. Even so, something about this story appealed to me and I read it all the way through in one sitting. I think it might be that Horace’s kink is mine (mostly) and that made it entertaining.

Anyway, to the story. As it opens, Walker is wandering around in the woods without proper shoes or clothes, when he bumps into the end of Horace’s rifle just as the first snowflakes of the season start to fall. Horace takes the younger man back to his cabin, warms him up, feeds him, and tells him to get ready for a long winter.

A fella’s got to do something to keep himself entertained on long, cold wintry days and nights, right? A person can only cook so much rabbit stew and play so many games of checkers before one’s thoughts naturally move in a more carnal direction…

Horace, a man of indeterminate age, clearly has a few definite ideas for what he wants from Walker, but realizes the need for trust between them to get there. So he takes things very slowly, letting Walker absorb each intimacy between them, before he moves to the next step. After all, they have all winter.

Walker, also of indeterminate age (but younger than Horace), has moments of doubt and fear that he is going to go straight to hell (or worse), but Horace finds the right balance between being rough and dominant and tender and loving to assuage Walker’s worries. Throw in lots of mind-blowing orgasms and Walker is eventually fully with the program and by the end of the book, thoughts of a life off the mountain and without Horace have long been abandoned.

There was a slightly formulaic feel to the writing and particularly the sex, as if the author had a clipboard next to her computer and kept checking off each new experience as it was introduced. Worse, most of these experiences were presented once and never revisited which is what gave the story the sex-without-plot feeling. That said, there was more than one shaving scene (I like those). Horace kept the woodstove well fed and the little cabin was hot, allowing Walker to be nude most of the time. I’ll admit it, that has a certain sexy appeal (along with his smoothie look) which is in large part what kept me reading.

I had to chuckle at this: winter is ending and supplies and provisions are running low. Does Horace worry about running out of flour, salt, sugar, coffee? Nope. Only one thing is on his mind…oil. LOL.

All in all, not a bad book. While I’ve certainly read much better, I’ve also read much, much worse. If you are looking for a wintry warm up, this might satisfy.

(review originally posted at Speak Its Name, November 2009)

[Pamela · Rating 3 out of 5]

REVIEW COURTESY OF FALLEN ANGEL REVIEWS:

Walker is a young man who finds himself lost in the woods. He wanders around in the cold weather for hours and imagine his surprise when he is greeted by the receiving end of a rifle. Walker is scared out of his wits when he first lays eyes on the owner of the rifle, a big, burly mountain man by the name of Horace.

Horace happens upon Walker before a bad snowstorm and thinks he is somebody up to no good. He quickly realizes he is wrong and escorts Walker to his home. The weather takes a turn for the worse and they end up having a lot of time on their hands. Being snowed in all winter, they soon become friends.

Horace realizes that he is falling for Walker and he begins to try his hand at convincing him to stay. Horace is a man with an abundance of sexual knowledge and he and Walker act out some pretty kinky fantasies. When their time together is at an end, Walker has to make a life-altering decision.

In this story, Walker really stuggles to come to terms with his feelings for Horace. Walker can't help feeling a sense of wrongness and really has to look deep down inside to discover his true feelings for Horace. For Horace, loving another man is easy to accept and he just has to make Walker realize that loving is the easy part. It is letting go that is the biggest obstacle.

There is such reality and depth to the characters. They are both strong, yet vulnerable and it is easy to understand their feelings and emotions. Their relationship is incredibly down to earth and the love scenes will leave you hot and bothered. One particular thing that I loved about this story was that it was more about a quest for love and it didn't just center around their sexual relationship. The events were very believable and there were several instances when I felt overwhelmed by how touching it all was. It is not every day that you see such compelling stories about two men in a relationship and this one is by far one of the best I have ever read. Truly emotional and heartwrenching; this is a love story that will be remembered for a long time.

[Elisa Rolle]

Walker is a young man for the first time far from home who is lost in the mountains at the beginning of the winter. He tries to reach the pass but seems that he has lost his track. And then he meets Horace, a big man who lives alone in a cabin among the mountain. Horace has no earth to leave alone the lad and brings him home with him.

A big snow arrives and another one and seems all to natural for Walker to remain with Horace: but Horace has some stranger ideas, he loves to touch and to kiss, and he loves to do that to men! And Walker, who is a total innocent, never has done that never with a woman, is enthralled but this man. And maybe when winter will pass, Horace will keep him in the cabin...

Walker is a poor lad, innocent of life and of sex. Maybe he is not gay, maybe if he had met a girl he could have married her, but he has met Horace and Horace is so gentle and insistent and the things they do together are so pleasant... so wickedly pleasant. Horace is a tought man: he has lived much, he has seen more, and now he only wants a quiet life in his mountain cabin. But if he can share that life with a willing lad like Walker, he sure will do everything to keep this man.

An interesting reading, very arousing, even if I hardly can believe that a man in the last year of the nineteen century could know and make the things that Horace makes to Walker. So you can amuse yourself with the defloration of Walker by the hand of Horace (literatelly) and see how he slowly falls on the wicked side of live.

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[Sammy Goode · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating is 4.5 stars

This little novella about two mountain men Horace, a bear of a man how lives an isolated life high in the mountains where the snow keeps him cabin-bound for several months of the year comes upon Walker, a young man lost in the mountains and nearly freezing and starving to death.

What ensues is actually an incredibly sweet relationship with Walker experiencing for the first time what it is to be with a man and for Horace to finally let someone into his big and generous heart. Yes there is LOTS of sex, very hot and very kinky sex including ropes and fisting. But all this is tempered with a self discovery of sorts. For Walker it is a discovery that he can love a man and that it is not "evil" as the preachers have said it is. And for Horace a discovery that he can find a soul mate, and let himself love to the fullest.

The only reason this did not get a 5 star rating is because I felt the end--where Walker makes the decision to stay was a bit rushed. This was a sweet moment and I wanted more--like the rest of the novella I wanted them to take their time to declare their love. But this was a minor niggle in an overall sweet and sensual book.

[SJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Saved from being PWP by the need turned to love this couple had for each other. It was interesting reading a book by the author where the MCs didn’t call each other ‘man’. That is probably because the setting is the 1800’s and a man working his claim rescues a younger man traveling horseless in heavy snow.
The story was very well written and delivered the relationship bubble that I like of the couple having time away from others. The entire story, except for a brief scene at the end, was in a snowbound mountain cabin. I enjoyed that. The dialogue was real. The sex was hot and was a checklist of kink and some BDSM for the older MC to practice on the younger and willing MC. This book is a solid and enjoyable read.

[Zoe Rider · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you're in the mood for smut, this'll do you. Not a whole lot of story tension/conflict, just one sex scene after another. Well-written sex scenes, though.

[Fedora · Rating 4 out of 5]

CABIN FEVER is a historical by BA Tortuga. Walker stumbles across Horace’s mountain cabin, having gotten turned around while trying to find the passage through the mountains before the snows hit. What they find together is more than they ever imagined.

[Joyfully Jay · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Joyfully Jay review.

3 stars

What happens is exactly what you would expect from Tortuga: sex and lots of it. In fact, after about 40%, the plot virtually disappears and the sole focus of the characters is how to get off, spanking, bondage, fisting, shaving, toys… Tortuga does not tread lightly with Horace and Walker.

Is this reasonable is the first question I had, and I came up with a yes/no answer. Yes, simply because we have two men stranded in a cabin for the winter with nothing else to do who both happen to be gay. I mean there’s a reason why families had so many kids back then, right? Well that and they needed the help around the farm. Then I said a tentative “no” to many other aspects of the story, such as Horace’s seemingly wide knowledge of BDSM, European customs, and so many things that added a great deal of depth to his character but seemed a little off at the same time. That being said, Walker had some dimension, but for the most part, he was simply a plaything (a very willing plaything) for Horace.

Want a variety of well written BDSM sex scenes between two unlikely lovers? Well here you go. Oh, one thing I forgot to mention…a wooden dildo ((cringe)) all I could think of was splinters…

Read Jason’s review in its entirety here.