10 Mountain Men&#x27;s Baby

Not your typical reverse harem

POV: dual
HUMOR: yes
F BOMBS: no
CLIFFHANGER: no
NEW AUTHOR FOR ME: yes

I had to admit I was a bit curious as to how you can have a relationship with 10 men - I mean 1 is already a lot of work!

I did find it interesting that it was only a dual POV when there were so many characters - but I can see it getting quite confusing and chaotic with more than 10 POVs. But the main focus was on Holly and Ryker. I liked that they were of different ethnicities and were both adopted. Not quite the typical reverse harem in that Holly and Ryker were more of a couple and they were open to sharing.

When Ryker and Holly first meet, it was interesting and unusual. But when they first hook up, it was strange (can't quite put my finger on it), emotionless, too soon? didn't feel the chemistry, and a bit unrealistic; it just sort of happens.

This book is quite funny and there are also: lots of hiking, mountain men, cabins, snow, a reporter, a celebrity socialite, mobile medical volunteers, gossip, loyalty, betrayal, a baby, and an HEA.

**minor spoiler**
Cheating. First time reading a reverse harem where one of the partners is married.

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Jenny Harris

4,400 reviews33 followers

December 27, 2020

I received this book with the understanding that I could leave a voluntary and honest review.

In this book we meet Holly Nestor and Ryker Dennison. When this book opens we find it to be a typical day for Holly in her San Diego dental practice. When on of the women that put her practice on the map comes in for an emergency. After talking with the woman once they have dealt with her tooth she tells her about a hike she was suppose to go on for charity, then all but shoves it on Holly to go in her place. Holly isn't sure leaving her practice to go on this hike is a good idea but the more she thinks about it the more she wants to go. After getting everything in order she head out. Ryker is an intern at a hospital but is determined to find out where he is from. He knows he is adopted and just wants to go on the hike to not only learn something about himself but also maybe learn something about his birth family. Though his adoptive family tries to fight him on it his mind is made up. What he finds on this hike changes his life in ways he never expected. After Holly and Ryker meet things are different for both of them. Even though they came on this journey for different reasons can they find a HEA or will what they left behind when they went on this journey stop them forever?

This is a great conclusion to this series. Each story can be read as a stand alone but each of them is a building block. There is so much more I want to tell you about this book. However I don't want to ruin the story for any other readers. I will say this book will have you hooked from the first word to the very end. I would highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Trish

1,618 reviews7 followers

This is the tenth and final book in the Love by Numbers series. It's a hot reverse harem story. This can be read as a standalone book. If you like reverse harems grabbing the previous books will be worth it. Just like with this book I've enjoyed reading them all. Each story is well told and unique not to mention hot.

This book starts of with Holly and Ryker who meet while hiking the Appalachian Trail. Holly is doing her hike to help promote a charity and Ryker is on the trail to discover his roots and maybe discover something about his family. He's adopted and hoping to find his birth family. The chemistry is hot between the two of them and they decide to hike the trail together. Along the way Ryker learns that he has nine brothers. During a gathering Holly and Ryker learn that the brothers share everything including wives and girlfriends. One of the brothers, Shaun is married and shares his wife with his brothers. Holly starts dancing and flirting with the brothers and before long Ryker is watching Holly taking turns being pleasured by the brothers. Watching is a huge turn on for Ryker. Ryker and Holly settle in to a life with the brothers and Ryker decides he wants to stay near his brothers but Holly starts to feel like she needs to finish the hike. When an emergency takes her back home to California Holly needs to decide if she should stay in CA or follow her heart back to North Carolina. Can she put aside that people will talk about their unconventional relationship?

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Raecharmed

9,300 reviews70 followers

December 22, 2020

Holly is a dentist and when a patient comes in and offers her to take a one in a lifetime hike in her place Holly jumps at it. Ryker wants to do the hike and learn where he came from. Holly and Ryker meet up on the trail and things heat up between them its not long before she wants to help him with his quest to find out where he came from. They end up in a small town and a waitress makes a comment about Ryker and how he looks like nine brothers from around there. They manage to connect with a brother and set up a meeting. When the brothers walk into the diner Holly knows that Ryker has found his family. Ryker and Holly end up staying at the family's cabin and learn that the brother share everything even women. It interests both of them and soon things get steamy with all the brothers and Holly. When an emergency call takes Holly back home will it end things between her and the brothers? Can they all make it work between them?

This is a steamy story that once I started it I couldn't put it down. The chemistry between them is off the charts hot. This is a well written and very entertaining story. I would recommend this book to any book lover.

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Emily

267 reviews1 follower

September 20, 2021

Hear me out

I've loved every book in this series, but this one was off. The story itself was good. Well written with a few errors, but still good.

Here's my problem:
This is not RH. This is hotwife. She and Ryker are in a relationship, and he shares her with them. This is not one women with 10 men.

Also, the fact that others have a wife and possibly girlfriends irks me. That's not what most of us come to RH for. I'm super annoyed that they don't talk to the other woman (especially the husband) before sleeping with Holly. Doing it "behind her back" feels a lot like cheating. There should have been a moment between Doris and Holly, or between Shaun and Doris, and the fact that there wasn't, felt wrong to me.

With the plot line of Holly not being willing to share Ryker, that whole thing should have been addressed. Like I said, hotwife, not RH.

And, coming into this expecting RH, I was disappointed that we got so little time/info about the brothers. The whole first half was normal relationship. We don't really know anything about each brother other than who did what to her and that they all look basically the same.

I love Nicole Casey's books and will read more and re-read 1-8, but this one missed the mark for me.

Amy Weller

1,978 reviews10 followers

This book is fantastic! The latest in this series is an absolute pleasure to read. Holly decides to set off on a hike of the Appalachian Trail for a charity after one of her dental patients is unable to go. There she will meet Ryker, a man training to be a doctor who is looking for his birth family. They will meet and it will change both of their lives. A trip to a diner in North Carolina will put them on the trail to find his family and what a surprise it will be for Ryker to find he has nine brothers. They will accept him into the family with open arms even before they know for sure and they will embrace Holly the same way. It is there they find that his brothers share everything and it will end up being a whole new and wonderful experience for Holly and Ryker. An emergency in her adopted family will send Holly back to San Diego and will send Ryker into dispair. While Holly is home, she will realize just how much Ryker and his brothers mean to her and with the news that she's pregnant, she will make the right choice, with her adopted mother's blessing to follow her heart back east.

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Andra Shaw

1,311 reviews11 followers

December 23, 2020

10 Mountain Men's Baby is not my first book that involves one woman with multiple partners. The reverse harem can lead to some very hotly erotic stories. This one, however, fell short for me. It is too slow for this type of story. Also, the characters do not engage you quickly enough for this type of story. It is the characters that make you want to read a story. Holly and Ryder were the introductions to the storyline. They really did not draw you in. Their encounter was a bit boring and mundane. I found myself skimming pages to get to something interesting. I even skimmed what should have been hot steamy sex scenes. It was all a bit blah. I know this is not meant to be some super intensely deep story. I was not reading it for that, but it should at least be fun or interesting.

The summary of the book was more interesting than the story. I'm not particularly eager to give authors bad reviews. However, this story felt thrown together with little thought toward developing the characters and the storyline.

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Minerva Minnie

8 reviews

April 28, 2021

It was a passable read but without any depth to it.
This review contains spoilers so read at your own risk. For example, one of the brothers was introduced as having a wife and introduced once, but then vanishes without a trace later. No mention of how she later figures in this equation and when the baby comes, how she reacts... pfft, zilch nada. nothing after that. Even when the female protagonist announces her pregnancy is not delved into. Further, it just goes like this. "One other thing.." That's it. not even the announcement, let alone Ryker's or his bothers reactions to it is delved into.
And then, there is the hike that it mentioned at the end of the book. She and the ten brothers are going on. What about the baby? Did it disappear? left with the abandoned wife? Just about everything is up in the clouds. And now, she wants to trek with Ryker in Japan? With or without the baby? Well,....that's it and if my review seems to end on a loose thread.. well that's because that's how the book ended for me. But, if don't care for those, then it's a passable read. Ciao. take care.

Jen

2,200 reviews

This book is part of the Love by Numbers series. Holly is a dentist who has opened her own practice. One of her regular clients Mrs. Freedman, is somewhat responsible for it's current success. She now has another challenge for Holly, to take her place on a six month hike through the Appalachian Trail and blog about it. Oh the other kicker, with four days notice. Ryker is currently studying to become a doctor and volunteers for Medicine in the Trail. The other reason is to also look for his family as he was adopted when he was a toddler. I enjoyed the story, the different twist of the relationships but missed the development of all the characters. There is alot going on in the storyline, some events left me reading between the lines and put a ripple in the smooth flow for me. All in all, still a really good story and a good addition to the series. Enjoy!

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Casey

356 reviews

July 18, 2021

Eh

The writing in this felt rather...immature? The characters themselves were immature...the flow of things were off in places, there was missing info in places...
Spoiler alert

The FMC didn't even grieve when her mother died...a mother she was close to. The dramatic scene...let's just say that's where it took a definite childish turn. But one of the worse parts for me was the cheating. So I get the brothers share everything. Kinda the point. But one is married and still gets with the fmc...without the wife ever being around or involved. Not saying ff is needed or anything just saying it seems odd that the wife isnt there when husband gets with a new girl. Feels like cheating to me.

This story was supposed to be RH but it's not. So the fmc is with one guy. This is more of a I'm with my boyfriend but for fun every now and then I'm with his 9 other brothers while he watches.

Fiona

2,761 reviews32 followers

They say every good story goes out with a bang. Nicole Casey sure did finish her romance by numbers with a great Big Bang. Holly is a dentist who has participated in a charity drive to raise money for the poor communities in far off places. When treating a patient who is also a well known socialite, she tells her of a charity she is helping to organise for the ‘Medicine on the Trail’ at the Appalachian Trail in North Carolina. She meets a young medical resident Ryker, who has set out on the trail, but is looking for his family in that area. They start a romance and meet his nine brothers and they learn they share everything, partners included. This was a hilarious story with moments of seriousness. Well worth reading it and you can’t help but fall in love with all of the characters.

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Diana

511 reviews

Judy Gittleson Hendrickson

This is an interesting twist on the reverse harem stories I have read to this point. Holly is a dentist, who loves to go on long hikes and takes a friend’s place hiking the Appalachian Trail to work and blog for a medical charity. In the first few days on the trail, she meets most of the characters whose hikes will intertwine with hers. Ryker is an adopted, residency doctor taking a break before starting his residency, to hike the trail as a medical volunteer, but also to try to find out about his past.
I enjoyed the descriptions of traveling the trail as the characters were invigorated by the beauty of the area while also being exhausted by the long days of hiking. The relationships, both positive and negative, played important rolls in the outcome of the story. Nicely done.

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5,665 reviews63 followers

January 2, 2021

Spoilers -
Holly, a dentist from California, and Ryker, a medical student, meet during a Blue Ridge Mountain hike. He is looking for his family and she decides to help. Surprises along the way get them in contact with his nine brothers. Instant family and they all share, including their women. Holly already has a new relationship with Ryker and it just keeps getting more interesting. Twists and turns separate her from the group as she goes back to California to see here mom. Happiness and her heart are in North Carolina Blue Ridge mountains, so she goes back, along with even more connections of Medicine On The Trail. A little girl with ten fathers is a great way to end this story. Sounds like happy futures for them all.

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981 reviews33 followers

December 14, 2020

4 stars

I love Nicola Casey’s menage books. They fit perfectly on that balance romantic erotica is, with high steam factor but also a good plot driving it.

The story; Holly and Ryker meet on the Appalachian trails where they are both doing charity walks, while Ryker is also looking for his birth family. Holly gets invested in his search and together they find his nine brothers.

In true Casey-fashion there was a lot of steam, though I found it a little too fast paced at times. I’m sad to see this is the last in The «Love by numbers»~series, but I think any larger groups than there already is here would be too much..

Highly recommend

•••I recieved an ARC of this for my honest review. All opinions are my own•••

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Kristen Lewendon

8,429 reviews63 followers

December 17, 2020

This is not the formula I usually see in a reverse harem book, and that makes me very excited about it. What I typically find on my bookshelf has the heroine balancing her time between all the relationships. In my experience, it’s pretty rare to see a primary relationship and then all the other interactions support that. This book didn’t really have enough space for me to get to know all of Ryker’s brothers well, but we do get to know them at least a little through Ryker and Holly. And what I got to know, I quite liked. I’m sorry to know that this is the last in the series, but I have to agree with the other reviewer who suggested that any more than this would be an awful lot for one woman to take on.
I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book through Booksprout.

11.6k reviews49 followers

December 19, 2020

One turns into ten....keeping it all in the family

Ten Mountain Men's Baby is the ninth and last book in the Love by Numbers series. This story is about Holly and Ryker who become a couple and then the addition of bringing other men into the relationship. The story-line is interesting and the characters were good. Some of the book was a bit quirky to me but the kink and chemistry between Holly and Ryker was nicely written.
This story was well written but there were a few parts where it seemed to drag and be redundant. So I did find myself skimming parts of it but then would get drawn back into the story a short while later. But overall it was a sexy and fun read.

I received a copy of this book and am leaving my honest review. My opinions are all my own.

Margaret

3,227 reviews25 followers

Hiking the Appalachian Trail Holly meets fellow hiker Ryker.
Dentist Doctor Holly Nestor is surprised when a patient suggests she take over from her on a charity hike along the Appalachian Trail lasting six months and visiting hospitals and clinics along the way then writing articles on a blog about them. When she starts the hike she soon hears about a Doctor Ryker Dennison doing the trail and helping out along the way for a charity plus at the same time looking for his birth family which makes her hope she catches up with him along the way. When she come to a creek and spots a naked man sunning himself on a rock she wonder if she has found the elusive Ryker and if she can help him find his family.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Tammy Northington

345 reviews2 followers

January 4, 2021

I love Nicole's stories, but I thought this one was a bit much. I love RH, but 10 men is way too much. You don't get a chance to get to know the majority of the men. I found the female lead a strong, independent woman who wasn't afraid to take on a charity event on the Appalachian Trail that was to take 6 months. The male lead was a sexy resident on the Appalachian Trail on the hunt for his family as he was adopted when he was young. What he doesn't expect is to not find one person from his birth family, but 9 brothers. They share everything, including their women. Other than their names and couple of jobs they do, you do not get to know any of the 9 brothers. Story is filled with lots of steam in the last half of the book, and ends with an HEA.

Ellen Mills

1,553 reviews10 followers

February 10, 2021

Ryker & Holly's love story was full of adventure, excitenent & hot sexual chemistry which made their trail adventure interesting. Ryker is also out to find more about his long lost family but when him & Holly meet not 1 but 9 other brothers the hot sexual chemistry becomes HOTTER on a whole new level. Although all 10 closer to each other share Everything there is still a special loving relationship between Holly & Ryker, however, a woman she met at the start of the trail threatens to ruin what Holly & the guys have. There are also tearful parts for each of their family's which makes what Holly & Ryker have even more special.
I have loved reading this series & Nicole's books.

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Syd Springer

4,038 reviews6 followers

This is the last book in this series and I'm sad to see it come to an end. I thought that this was a really good book. Holly and Ryker were fantastic together. I thought that this book was really different from other books in the series but still really good. I really liked the connection and the chemistry between Holly and Ryker. Holly and Ryker worked so well together and Holly help Ryker when everyone else just kind of brushes him off. There is some drama in this book as well as some heartbreak but everyone got a really HEA. I would recommend this book, series and Ms. Nicole as a great author.

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Rachael Bromley

1,664 reviews16 followers

December 19, 2020

It was a good story but not the usual reverse harem I like

Holly is a dentist and gets talked into walking a trail and making a blog for donations. Ryker is an intern and wants to find his family. So he leaves to walk a trail, and volunteers his time, in the hopes he will find clues. They both meet and hit it off. Someone in a town has information and puts him in touch with 9 men who could be related. I did enjoy the book although I was some what confused to where the other women fitted in if they were sharing Holly. It was as though they didn’t exist and that aspect of it I didn’t enjoy. To me a reverse harem is usually woman with how ever many men they have.

Ashley Stroup

199 reviews

Wow. What a wonderful book for this series. As always Nicole Casey delivers steamy sex scenes, characters you love, witty banter, drama and makes a world you can disappear into a few hours. I won’t be doing spoilers here because I don’t like reading reviews with them but I highly recommend this book. I read it in one sitting I couldn’t put it down! If you like alpha males and a sassy heroine, a good story (don’t over think the 10 men you’ll miss out on a great book) , steamy intimate scenes and a HEA. This book is for you!!

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Valentina

1,024 reviews9 followers

Holly is a Dentist. One of her clients talks her in to going on a Appalachian Trail for charity. Ryker is a medical resident. Ryker was adopted and decided to go on Medicine on the Trail to see if he can find his birth parents. Ryker and Holly meet at a stream of water were Ryker was fully nude and Holly acted like it was no big deal. From there the chemistry for them was unbreakable. The Chandler brothers do everything together. Ryker can't believed that he has nine brothers. I enjoyed reading this book. I loved the storyline and plot. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and I am voluntarily leaving a review.

Nan

1,321 reviews4 followers

Holly is a dentist hiking the Appalachian Trail to raise awareness and money for a charity for underserved communities. She meets Ryker, a doctor just starting his residency along the way. He is looking for his birth family. The family turns out to be nine brothers who announce on the same day they meet that they share everything. One of my favorite parts of Nicole Casey books is the multiple POVs. In this there is only Holly and Ryker. None of the brothers have their own personalities and I saw no reason other than their resemblance to Ryker for Holly to fall for them. Maybe 10 were a few too many to individualize. I received an advance copy of this book and voluntarily left a review.

Rowena

3,172 reviews