Book Review: Chasing the Wild

• Book Blurb

  From international best-selling author Elliott Rose comes a new forbidden-love series…

  What happens when you’re snowed in on a mountain ranch, with the one man you definitely should not be fantasizing about?
  I’ve always done what was expected of me. Layla Birch, the good girl.
  Forced to grow up too fast. To take care of everything myself. I had a plan.
  Only, I didn’t count on him. Colton Wilder. The cowboy nearly twice my age.
  He’s my dream man. One who takes care of me, gives me a job, and makes my pulse thud harder every time he comes near.
  My ex-boyfriend’s father.
  The nights are long and cold on top of this mountain. As the snow grows thicker and the tension builds between us, we’re both inching closer to a line we shouldn’t cross.
  Each day, it grows harder to resist the man who looks at me with longing in his eyes.
  It’s tempting to forget about being the good girl for once.
  No one would find out. Would they?

  Chasing The Wild is an interconnected stand-alone, book 1 in the all-new Crimson Ridge series, and can be read separately. Intended for ages 18 and over.

  From international best-selling author Elliott Rose comes a new forbidden-love series…

  What happens when you’re snowed in on a mountain ranch, with the one man you definitely should not be fantasizing about?
  I’ve always done what was expected of me. Layla Birch, the good girl.
  Forced to grow up too fast. To take care of everything myself. I had a plan.
  Only, I didn’t count on him. Colton Wilder. The cowboy nearly twice my age.
  He’s my dream man. One who takes care of me, gives me a job, and makes my pulse thud harder every time he comes near.
  My ex-boyfriend’s father.
  The nights are long and cold on top of this mountain. As the snow grows thicker and the tension builds between us, we’re both inching closer to a line we shouldn’t cross.
  Each day, it grows harder to resist the man who looks at me with longing in his eyes.
  It’s tempting to forget about being the good girl for once.
  No one would find out. Would they?

  Chasing The Wild is an interconnected stand-alone, book 1 in the all-new Crimson Ridge series, and can be read separately. Intended for ages 18 and over.

• My review

  Overall story

  What a delightful surprise this book turned out to be.

  Age-gap, forced-proximity romances often struggle to sell the idea that the couple is truly falling in love, but Elliott Rose nails it.

  Layla Birch—raised fast by a rough past and now passionately pursuing the career she fought so hard to study—takes a temporary job on Colton Wilder’s remote mountain ranch. A sudden blizzard isolates them from the world, leaving them to share long, silent nights punctuated by crackling fireplaces and searing glances.

  Romance & spicy moments

  This book is HOT—the kind of build that makes you want to shout, “OMG, I’m about to explode!”

  When the dam finally breaks, the scenes are explicit, passionate, and satisfyingly intense without ever feeling gratuitous. Colton’s grumpy, almost primal protectiveness meets Layla’s resilient strength head-on, creating fireworks in and out of the bedroom (or hayloft).

  Layla isn’t your typical sunshine heroine; she has real backbone, though through Colton’s eyes she is the sunshine to his grumpiness.

  Colton—older, rugged, and utterly broody—can’t hide the possessive, protective streak that flares whenever Layla is near. Their connection is more than physical: both characters find in the other someone who sees and appreciates the passion they pour into their work and the scars life has given them. The slow, believable shift from careful distance to genuine emotional intimacy is what gives the story its punch.

  If possessive, growly cowboys and heroines who match them spark for spark are your jam, Colton is peak book-boyfriend material. The steam level stays high, but the tenderness—his hand gentle on her chilled cheek, her quiet competence tending a horse’s injury—is what makes the heat matter. The end result is a romance that’s equal parts sexy, heartfelt, and utterly entertaining.

  Overall story

  What a delightful surprise this book turned out to be.

  Age-gap, forced-proximity romances often struggle to sell the idea that the couple is truly falling in love, but Elliott Rose nails it.

  Layla Birch—raised fast by a rough past and now passionately pursuing the career she fought so hard to study—takes a temporary job on Colton Wilder’s remote mountain ranch. A sudden blizzard isolates them from the world, leaving them to share long, silent nights punctuated by crackling fireplaces and searing glances.

  Romance & spicy moments

  This book is HOT—the kind of build that makes you want to shout, “OMG, I’m about to explode!”

  When the dam finally breaks, the scenes are explicit, passionate, and satisfyingly intense without ever feeling gratuitous. Colton’s grumpy, almost primal protectiveness meets Layla’s resilient strength head-on, creating fireworks in and out of the bedroom (or hayloft).

  Layla isn’t your typical sunshine heroine; she has real backbone, though through Colton’s eyes she is the sunshine to his grumpiness.

  Colton—older, rugged, and utterly broody—can’t hide the possessive, protective streak that flares whenever Layla is near. Their connection is more than physical: both characters find in the other someone who sees and appreciates the passion they pour into their work and the scars life has given them. The slow, believable shift from careful distance to genuine emotional intimacy is what gives the story its punch.

  If possessive, growly cowboys and heroines who match them spark for spark are your jam, Colton is peak book-boyfriend material. The steam level stays high, but the tenderness—his hand gentle on her chilled cheek, her quiet competence tending a horse’s injury—is what makes the heat matter. The end result is a romance that’s equal parts sexy, heartfelt, and utterly entertaining.

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