When Josh arrives, Tucker can hardly believe what has happened to the young man he used to know as so vibrant and full of life. But he is now a shell of the man he once was, and hoping to help in his recovery, his mother sends him to his Uncle Tucker’s horse ranch in New Mexico, a place he used to visit as a child. Half dead from the heroine addiction forced upon him, Josh is plagued by nightmares of the terrible things he was forced to witness and do in order to protect his cover and ultimately capture the bad guys. Don’t even bother with the others, they’re not worth the time or money.FBI Agent Joshua Chastain spent three years undercover in one of the worst gangs in Chicago. But the flow was relatively smooth and the happy ending left me with a smile.Īll in all, I now finally have a cowboy romance to add to my ‘favorites’ pile. The incident with Eli in the city seemed just a little too convenient. The story line was good, but it stuttered in a few places. True ability lies in drawing a complete picture with just a few well-worded sentences and this is something Rowan Speedwell accomplishes with ease. It’s unnecessary and most of the time, boring. Some authors will spend pages and pages making sure you’re familiar with every blade of grass. The descriptions of the landscape were lovely without being overpowering. If you’ve read Rowan Speedwell’s work before, then you know that she has the romance down pat every time. The chemistry between them was very sweet. But instead, he’s wonderfully fleshed out and stays consistently so throughout the book. In less capable hands, he would have fallen flat and become just another slow-drawling, horse riding, stetson-wearing guy. In some ways, he’s your typical cowboy, the ranch foreman, quiet and steady.

Eli’s character must have taken serious skills too. Watching him slowly get back on his feet through Eli’s eyes was so much more powerful than it would have been otherwise. Years of heroin addiction do not leave anyone looking attractive that’s just reality. I’m glad he wasn’t made out to be some sort of a pretty boy from the very beginning.

Joshua is not your typical wounded character. For this type of romance, incredibly good. I remember thinking, ‘It’s Rowan Speedwell, it can’t be that bad.’Īnd it wasn’t. So when she came out with this book I hesitated for a day or two then threw caution to the wind. When you get your hands on one of her books, you can be sure that genuine effort has been put into every aspect of it. As an author, she is remarkably dependable. Who has money to waste?īut I like Rowan Speedwell. I don’t know what it is about cowboy romance that makes even decent authors reach for cliches and vulgarity. I’ve read at least a dozen of similar novels and they were really bad. Let me first say that I don’t like cowboy romance.

Love, Like Water by Rowan Speedwell