Reviewed by Jen B.

TITLE:                      Texas Pride        

AUTHOR:                Kindle Alexander

PUBLISHER:           Kindle Alexander Collection LLC

LENGTH:                 318 pages

BLURB:        When mega movie star and two time Academy Award winner, Austin Grainger voluntarily gave up his dazzling film career, his adoring fan base thought he’d lost his mind. For Austin, the seclusion of fifteen hundred acres in the middle of Texas sounds like paradise. No more cameras, paparazzi, or overzealous media to hound him every day and night. Little did the sexiest man alive know when one door closes, another usually opens. And Austin’s opened by way of a sexy, hot ranch owner right next door.

Kitt Kelly wasn’t your average rancher. He’s young, well educated and has hidden his sexuality for most of his life. When his long time wet dream materializes as his a new neighbor it threatens everything he holds dear. No way the ranching community would ever accept him if he came out. With every part of his life riding on the edge, can Kitt risk it all for a chance at love or will responsibility to his family heritage cost him his one chance at happiness?

REVIEW:     If you’re looking for a solid story you can sink your teeth into, I again recommend Kindle Alexander.  Every book I’ve read so far has been close to 300 pages of full-on engrossing story, and this one was no different.

At first glance, this seems like any other unlikely romance.  Celebrity hottie, Austin, is tired of the Hollywood life and hiding his sexuality, so he decides to retire and leave it all behind.  He takes many steps to stay hidden from the paparazzi, and seems to manage it after he moves to the property he bought in his old home town in Texas, property he bought from neighboring rancher, Kitt, whom he had known back in school.

Kitt is a bit of a loner, keeping his personal life successfully secret from family, and everyone around him, as he attempts to dig the ranch out of the debt left by his father.  He feels so strongly about never being able to come out for fear of losing everything he has been working toward, as well as taking care of his stepmom and two younger sisters.

However, as their relationship grows, and they become more important to each other, it is so easy to see how genuine they are with each other, even though both are a bit taken by surprise, by what they seem to have together, and how it makes them go against what they’ve always strived for – Kitt being adamant about hiding and never coming out, to Austin’s big life change to not hide anymore.  They seem a very unlikely couple that would never have a future, but both are unable to prevent those things from changing as their feelings for each other take over.

Things go at a fairly slow but steady pace as these guys work their way through obstacles here and there.  Their HEA definitely doesn’t come easy, but it is well worth the effort.  These guys were sexy and romantic, hot and steamy, yet heartbreaking at times.

There have been very few couples in my reading travels who have so easily and believably made me feel their emotions and feelings for each other.  These guys just had it, and it felt completely real.  I honestly cannot find a way to describe this in a way to do it justice, but suffice to say, this was one of the most favorite things I will take away from this story.  This went a long way to making this story work for me.  I definitely recommend this and hope that others see and feel some of what I did.

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