3.75 stars

The is the first book I've read from this shared author world of Colliers Creek, but won't be the last.

It was great to see Xavier's brother Max and the differing personalities between the twins. I liked Max and Nash together. Nash's grumpy personality bounced well off of Max's more happy go lucky one. I liked that while Max had money, he wasn't obnoxious with it. Yes he wanted to help people out, but he asked them if he could first and didn't just push it on them.

The mystery was ok, I don't feel like we had a resolution and I'm not sure if it is carrying across to the next book or not. I also felt this one rushed in places. There were a couple of times I got myself lost thinking I had missed something but only to find out it was skip in the narrative. The main one was when Nash met Max at the pub after he had stayed at the ranch. For all Max knew Nash hated him (and I don't buy the reason why to be honest) and then they met at the pub and Nash asks if he can sit down, then next paragraph they were in bed together. How did we get here? If I was reading a paperback I would have checked the page numbers. 

I would have liked to have seen more from MAx's interactions with some of the side characters, especially Robin and the ranch hands. She was the reason he was there and then once he got together with Nash she was kind of forgotten. 

All in all a good afternoons read that has now made me want to check out the other stories from this world. 

ARC provided by the author for an honest review