Summary:
I’m not supposed to feel this way…
I never wanted to disappear more than while around my family. Briar Lane, the girl only useful for one thing: my surname. A business handshake and pawn to be traded. My father’s chess piece shuffled between empires. That was my life back in L.A. but all it took was finding the dirty secret stuffed in a jacket pocket, and my entire world unraveled. So, I fled to the one place I knew they could never find me. Crimson Ridge.
Arriving in this snowy, harsh world, I thought I’d be starting over on my own, but it turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong. The abandoned mountain cabin I inherited isn’t what it seems. This mountain hides secrets. An ex-pro bull rider consumes this space, and now, my every thought with it… Stôrmand Lane. My father’s adopted brother.
We should never have found ourselves isolated out here in the mountains together, each trying to outrun our pasts. All it took was one misunderstanding, one line almost crossed, and everything changed.
A girl like me isn’t supposed to know what those tattooed hands feel like, and I’m certainly not meant to feel butterflies anytime that pair of piercing blue eyes land on mine. He might be my every fantasy, a cowboy I constantly dream about, but he’s a temptation I have to ignore. A man I absolutely cannot find myself attracted to. Even when he’s looking at me with the kind of hunger that can only spell ruin for us both.
Long, dark nights spent in this tiny cabin can’t be the excuse to step into forbidden territory. Or can they?
My Thoughts:
Braving the Storm was one of my highly anticipated reads this fall, and OMG it did not disappoint!
Zaddy Storm and Briar are everything we needed after Colt and Layla’s story and fulfilled our little taboo heart desires. the tension, angst, push/pull, and honestly pathetic attempts at resistance to one another made it all the better.
Storm is our retired rodeo rider turned farrier, tattooed, scorned, gruff and grumpy MMC who thinks he can only live with 1 night stands and no deep connections with others.
Briar is our runaway, desperate FMC, tired of living in the drama and scummy pit of LA that is Lane Industries with her cheating husband and loveless marriage, just looking to escape her life.
When these 2 collide, things heat up quick! The Spice was SPICY and oh so good!
This story was so amazing, not just because of the wonderland that is Crimson Ridge, or the cowboys and horses, or even the tension and angst and spice between the 2 of them. It was amazing because it was the story of 2 damaged people finding each other and healing one another, even when they think they shouldn’t. I LOVED this story and can’t wait for the next one!
Overall, I really enjoyed Braving the Storm by Elliott Rose, book 1 in the Crimson Ridge series, and I can’t wait for the next installment… it’s going to be a good one!
Worthy of a Re-read.
See what other books I think are worthy of a re-read here.
Read my review of book 1, Chasing the Wild.
