Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Rescue
SERIES: Men of Hidden Creek season 4 #3
AUTHOR: Alison Hendricks
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 284 pages
RELEASE DATE: August 30, 2019
BLURB:
“I don’t need you to rescue me.”
Tiberius “The Beast” Caulville is the bad boy of the NFL: an arrogant PR nightmare who doesn’t care about his public image. But when an off-season fight lands him in hot water, he’s forced to hide out in Hidden Creek and clean up his act with the help of the one person who doesn’t buy it.
Caleb Brower has lived in the shadow of his manipulative ex-boyfriend for years. One breakout client will give him the freedom he needs, if he can withstand that client’s outrageously inappropriate behavior. But Caleb is used to entitled athletes, and can tell there’s more to Ty than the mask he wears.
Volunteering at his uncle’s dog rescue could save Ty—or bury him under the fears he thought he’d left behind. Caleb can’t help being drawn to the broken man beneath the bluster, and soon business gets personal. Can he show the rest of the world the sweetheart Ty really is?
Welcome to Hidden Creek, Texas, where the heart knows what it wants, and where true love lives happily ever after. Every Men of Hidden Creek novel can be read on its own, but keep an eye out for familiar faces around town! This book contains a pair of irresistible rescue dogs, a Beast who’s really a softie, and plenty of healing for two lost souls.
REVIEW:
Damn what a book. I grew up watching football and sports. Living in a houseful of boys, you learned to love it or hate it. Most of the time I love it. So I get where people’s perception sometimes get off when a player comes across too cocky or with a bad attitude. I have a few football players I can’t stand because of it. But sometimes people’s perceptions are wrong and I’d be the first to make an apology if I was. So with Ty, I got it. He had that persona that everyone loved to hate but the problem was, no one knew the real reasons behind what he did and why. Until Caleb came along.
Caleb worked for a pr firm that gave two shits about how things really were. They were interested in making a buck and stirring up trouble. So he left. And left an abusive ex. Who is still trying to get to him and undermine him. But Caleb is determined to make it on his own and he’s going to make sure Ty gets represented right. Especially when he starts digging to find out the truth behind all the so called violence. And he gets to the bottom quick. Amd Ty is not happy. Not because Caleb found out. He could care less what people thought of him. It was the people he was protecting. He didn’t want them hurt again or more than they already were. But Caleb had a way about him. And the people Ty were protecting were standing up for themselves and for him. All while Ty was facing fears and demons from his own past. But again, Caleb had a way to fix that. When he learns of Ty’s fear of dogs and why, he put him with one that knew his plight. And Ty started to change. He started to let go and relax. Even more so, when he learned the truth from his uncle about his past. But now, Caleb’s past has come calling amd is doing everything he can to undermine Caleb and mess up Ty all to have Caleb under his thumb. But Ty is having no part of it and once again, due to manipulation, he’s in jail. But the look on Caleb’s face when he sees him, it’s more than Ty can bear and they may not come back from this.
When both parties have some abuse in their pasts, it makes things very difficult. Even if there’s been therapy involved or whatever. It’s still there. It never really goes away. There’s no trust, people are leery and wary of starting anything and usually end of focusing on the one thing in their life that they are good at or passionate about in order to forget and move on. For these two, they both are doing it. Because both are running from their pasts instead of dealing with them. Of course, with both, it doesn’t help when it’s slammed in their faces one way or another every single day. But what I loved is Caleb. Even through his crap with his ex, he had an innocence about him. He still tried to see the good in everyone and tried to find the right way to help. And the rescue shelter was a perfect way to do so. He brought comfort, and an ease to people when paired with who they needed. And Ty was learning it was ok to let go and not have to hold on to that beast persona. He could be himself. He could relax for once. Because at least two people truly saw him for him. Nothing else. And that made all the difference.
Sometimes it only takes one kind thing to do so.
Something we all need to remember. We may be the one thing someone needs.
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