My best friend, my boss’s son, and the straight boy I’ve loved since the second grade.
I’ve been in love with Westley Gilderoy for as long as I can remember.
He’s my best friend. His daddy owns the ranch I work on. And he’s straight.
So I take what I can lunch breaks in his truck, my head on his thigh, my favorite chips traded for his sad little baby carrots.
It’s enough. It has to be.
Because I’m leaving Sagebrush, and nobody knows it yet.
Then West dumps his girlfriend and takes me camping. The next morning, I wake up wrapped in his arms in a bed way too small for two grown cowboys.
Now he’s looking at me like he’s never really seen me before.
His daddy has noticed too.
And loving West isn’t the only secret I’ve been keeping.
The other one could get me arrested…
Tropes You Can
Best Friends to LoversPining Since the Fifth GradeRancher’s Son x Ranch HandHe Thought He Was StraightOnly One BedDisapproving DaddyMeddling Aunt DollyWill Trade Chips for Baby CarrotsSmall Town SecretsHigh HeatSteal and Starlight is a sweet, spicy contemporary MM cowboy romance written in first person with alternating POVs. This is book nine and the final book in the Sagebrush Cowboys series.
Atreus Rosewood is a gay romance author living in Michigan with his two boyfriends, two cats, a spoiled dog, and all the beaches he could ask for. He writes constantly to the detriment of all else and that's just the way he likes it. If you happen to find him wandering a beach and mumbling to himself, iced coffee is how you’ll lure him back to civilization.
I love this author. I have read Sagebrush series from 1 to 8. And I was excited for this. REALLY. This was on my TBR but it just not for me. I mean I understand that this is not real, just fiction and all but the main thing that bothered me so much is, it kinda was implied you can do that and not in trouble with the law. No, just NOT right. And it does not give you the right to do such thing because you had a bad past and not get in trouble. I kinda had a bad vibe with the title but I love the author's other books and I just didn't think it was literal meaning. Ahhhhh noooo, I have to think about this for a long time.
Rhett and Westley have now each other since childhood. They have been best friends but now at 25 year of age Rhett knows that he always been gay and attracted to Westley. Rhett works as a ranch hand for Westleys father and the other ranchmen treat him awful because they suspect Rhett has a thing for Westley. Westley’s father does not like Rhett and fires him then throws Westley as well when he tries to protect Rhett. They eventually end of at Rhett’s aunt Betty place and gives them a room to use. Rhett and Westley finally say they love each other and have great sex, no protection as they are probably both virgins. This book bring a closure to what the other books brought up in regards to things being stolen.
Another romantic story set in Sagebrush! I really love reading this saga always adding to mystique of this town. This time Dolly's nephew creates trouble unknowingly to the town folks as things go missing from their homes. I always think Dolly reminds me of Flo from Mel's diner sitcom. A can full of worms I could never close again is a saying I've never heard before. I also chuckled at the phrase "I guarentee it or the next one is free" in the concept you'll see when you read it. The town fair comes along too where the other MM couples are met surprising our lovers. Atreus aka Blake writes these novels so well.