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Wrenching
Malachi Dunbar has not had an easy life. He's struggled to overcome numerous roadblocks and hardships as he built himself a life as a mechanic, despite a serious handicap. He's admired rancher Daniel Winslow from afar but never dreamed events would play out to land him in the amazing spot of being able to do a real service for his secret hero. Can Mal maintain his cool and a safe distance from Dan when they're sharing a house and working to resolve a dangerous mystery?
Daniel Winslow says he does not have employees but friends who help him run the ranch he inherited from his father. Challenged by his younger stepbrother and facing perilous sabotage to his truck, he enlists a young mechanic to help solve the puzzle. He'd always wanted a real brother or a partner he could trust, but his stepbrother is not the right guy to fill that role. How about Mal, who brings some fine but rare qualities to the Flying W Ranch?
Gay / Contemporary / Cowboys / Western (Modern Day) / Action / Adventure / Mystery / Detective
71 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 9, 2013
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About the author
Deirdre O'Dare
119 books19 followersDeirdre O'Dare, who also writes milder (roughly PG-13 rated) romance as Gwynn Morgan, has loved reading and writing since early childhood. Writing came naturally to Deirdre/Gwynn, who scribed her first simple verse at age eight. An avid reader, she devoured hundreds of books while growing up and later as an adult. Somewhere along the way she found romance and then romance with more explicit and detailed love scenes. “Ah ha,” said she, “I think I have found my niche!” In the last decade after leaving her "day job" as a civilian employee of the U. S. Army, she finally settled into romantic fiction writing as a second career. Deirdre has a growing number of shorts and novellas, all published by Amber Heat.
With Irish and Welsh ancestry on both sides of her family, Deirdre has always been enthralled by the history and customs of the Celtic peoples as they have come down to us. The Mother Goddess idea particularly resonates with her as well as the notion that physical expressions of love between consenting couples are both a divine gift and a sacred duty to honor the Mother. Deirdre admits her favorite heroes are cops, cowboys and Celts.
With Irish and Welsh ancestry on both sides of her family, Deirdre has always been enthralled by the history and customs of the Celtic peoples as they have come down to us. The Mother Goddess idea particularly resonates with her as well as the notion that physical expressions of love between consenting couples are both a divine gift and a sacred duty to honor the Mother. Deirdre admits her favorite heroes are cops, cowboys and Celts.
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June 22, 2018
A Joyfully Jay review.
4.5 stars
I really enjoyed this little novella. Mal and Dan are great characters and I wanted to get to know them. They seem lonely, almost married to their jobs, but they both had the desire to have a special someone in their lives. I think Mal is the type of person others would completely look past if they saw him in town, quiet and unassuming, while Dan would capture everyone’s attention. He’s wealthy and handsome and a genuinely nice man. I liked how there was a bit of give and take with their relationship. They’re attracted to each other, but both seem shy, especially Mal. I grew very fond of them in the short time I got to spend with them. I seriously would have loved for this book to be longer so I could get to know them even deeper.
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4.5 stars
I really enjoyed this little novella. Mal and Dan are great characters and I wanted to get to know them. They seem lonely, almost married to their jobs, but they both had the desire to have a special someone in their lives. I think Mal is the type of person others would completely look past if they saw him in town, quiet and unassuming, while Dan would capture everyone’s attention. He’s wealthy and handsome and a genuinely nice man. I liked how there was a bit of give and take with their relationship. They’re attracted to each other, but both seem shy, especially Mal. I grew very fond of them in the short time I got to spend with them. I seriously would have loved for this book to be longer so I could get to know them even deeper.
Read Kenna’s review in its entirety here.
September 27, 2014
This book simply didn't work for me.Less chemistry and romance I guess.
Even I didn't like the suspense part as it was made very obvious from the beginning who could have been the person trying to harm the MC.
Even I didn't like the suspense part as it was made very obvious from the beginning who could have been the person trying to harm the MC.
November 6, 2016
Ridiculous plot, no sexual heat between MC's. Overall boring book.
June 21, 2018
A Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words Review An Alisa Review:
Rating: 3 stars out of 5
A lot of this story didn’t really make any sense to me and even with that I mostly enjoyed the story. I’ve never understood the loving someone from afar when you barely know them as Mal did Dan. And Dan turns to someone he barely knows to help him.
The mystery wasn’t much of a mystery to me but it gave Dan and Mal a reason to be together for a period of time. I didn’t really see this relationship building at all except for their own random thoughts but they never did anything or really got to know each other for Dan’s ideas at the end of story make any sense.
The cover art by Written Ink Designs is a nice understated design.
Rating: 3 stars out of 5
A lot of this story didn’t really make any sense to me and even with that I mostly enjoyed the story. I’ve never understood the loving someone from afar when you barely know them as Mal did Dan. And Dan turns to someone he barely knows to help him.
The mystery wasn’t much of a mystery to me but it gave Dan and Mal a reason to be together for a period of time. I didn’t really see this relationship building at all except for their own random thoughts but they never did anything or really got to know each other for Dan’s ideas at the end of story make any sense.
The cover art by Written Ink Designs is a nice understated design.
May 4, 2014
PizzyGirl reviews Wrenching by Deirdre O’Dare
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REVIEW: Wrenching is an easy to read mystery with a little relationship thrown in on the side. The author did a great job of building the suspense such that I couldn’t put this novella down. I wanted to know who the culprit was.
Mal is a mechanic. He is a hard worker and hopes on day to open his own shop. He isn’t going to let having a bad hand stop him from achieving his goal and is actively taking business classes online to better prepare himself for his future. Dan inherited his ranch when his father passed away suddenly. He is a hard worker and treats his ranch hands more as friends than employees. So when someone starts tampering with his truck, he cannot fathom that it would be one of his men. He begins to suspect his step brother and enlists Mal to help him discover the truth.
Once the men start working together, they realize there is a mutual attraction and decide to give it a try once Mal’s temporary job is complete. They are both caught in an adrenaline inducing, potential gunfight and it spurs them to finally do something about their growing sexual attraction.
One thing I did not like is that Dan formed a permanent attachment to Mal with little to know explanation in the story. Once they have sex, Dan decides they will be together forever. This just didn’t work for me when most of the story was focused on the mystery of who is sabotaging the truck and barely on the sex and relationship.
Wrenching is good addition to the Grease Monkey series. It is well written and I easily connected with the main characters. Just as some of the other novellas in the series, Wrenching sets the stage for sequel. Mal and Dan are just starting out and I would love to know more about them in the future. Do they go slow like Mal wants? Do they stay together like Dan hopes? I would read more if it became available.
http://www.mrsconditreadsbooks.com/?p...
REVIEW: Wrenching is an easy to read mystery with a little relationship thrown in on the side. The author did a great job of building the suspense such that I couldn’t put this novella down. I wanted to know who the culprit was.
Mal is a mechanic. He is a hard worker and hopes on day to open his own shop. He isn’t going to let having a bad hand stop him from achieving his goal and is actively taking business classes online to better prepare himself for his future. Dan inherited his ranch when his father passed away suddenly. He is a hard worker and treats his ranch hands more as friends than employees. So when someone starts tampering with his truck, he cannot fathom that it would be one of his men. He begins to suspect his step brother and enlists Mal to help him discover the truth.
Once the men start working together, they realize there is a mutual attraction and decide to give it a try once Mal’s temporary job is complete. They are both caught in an adrenaline inducing, potential gunfight and it spurs them to finally do something about their growing sexual attraction.
One thing I did not like is that Dan formed a permanent attachment to Mal with little to know explanation in the story. Once they have sex, Dan decides they will be together forever. This just didn’t work for me when most of the story was focused on the mystery of who is sabotaging the truck and barely on the sex and relationship.
Wrenching is good addition to the Grease Monkey series. It is well written and I easily connected with the main characters. Just as some of the other novellas in the series, Wrenching sets the stage for sequel. Mal and Dan are just starting out and I would love to know more about them in the future. Do they go slow like Mal wants? Do they stay together like Dan hopes? I would read more if it became available.
March 18, 2014
I bought the entire Grease Monkey collection from Amber Quill Press yesterday and I finished them all today.
Mal and Dan. This one started off great. I was really liking the whole truck problems bit, but what I couldn't get on board with the whole
Liked I said I really did like the whole truck problems and sabotage, but I didn't really buy Mal and Dan's romance. I didn't feel a connection at all. When did Mal start having a hero worship over Dan? Why? Why did Dan come onto Mal?
Whatever, I liked the story, but didn't buy the romance. Good thing it was only a small part of this story.
Mal and Dan. This one started off great. I was really liking the whole truck problems bit, but what I couldn't get on board with the whole
Liked I said I really did like the whole truck problems and sabotage, but I didn't really buy Mal and Dan's romance. I didn't feel a connection at all. When did Mal start having a hero worship over Dan? Why? Why did Dan come onto Mal?
Whatever, I liked the story, but didn't buy the romance. Good thing it was only a small part of this story.
May 21, 2014
This one sneaks up on you. Mal. a hunky but slightly disabled mechanic and Dan, a prominent rancher whom he has idolized for years meet up in a somewhat predictable dilemma--how to determine if the rancher's new pick-up truck is being sabotaged and why.
This one is subtle in the sense that while there is a definite attraction between the two men, both have high moral standards when it comes to mixing business with pleasure, and the result is a simple story of life on a ranch and how two men get closer without doing much about it...until it really counts. Very well written, very laid back in its approach to sex and completely different from the other four in the Grease Monkeys series--but a gem on its own terms.
This one is subtle in the sense that while there is a definite attraction between the two men, both have high moral standards when it comes to mixing business with pleasure, and the result is a simple story of life on a ranch and how two men get closer without doing much about it...until it really counts. Very well written, very laid back in its approach to sex and completely different from the other four in the Grease Monkeys series--but a gem on its own terms.
August 15, 2014
I didn't feel the attraction between the two MC's at all. I tried, but I just couldn't see it. The plot was more than a little flimsy, too. It would've been cheaper and more effective to install a motion activated camera, then to expect a single human to catch someone in the act. So...meh.
May 14, 2014
2.5 stars
April 19, 2014
Wow, that story is truly boring. Even two stars are to much for it.
I'm dissapointed.
I'm dissapointed.
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