Reviewed by Anabela

TITLE: The Captain and the Squire

SERIES: Captivating Captains #5

AUTHORS: Catherine Curzon & Eleanor Harkstead

PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing

LENGTH: 214 pages

RELEASE DATE: January 14, 2020

BLURB:

A sexy city boy and a country squire will set the countryside alight!

Tarquin Bough is a tweedy squire with an ambitious fiancée who controls his every move. He’s also the owner of the finest collection of saucy artefacts in the world. From Christine Keeler’s eyelash to the Virgin Queen’s dildo, they’re all safe in Tarquin’s care.

Christopher Hardacre is a city-slicker with the tighest jodhpurs and the most smackable bottom in London. He’s given up the ratrace for a country life as captain of the village rowing team. The only trouble is, he’s lost his money to a ruthless scam and Bough Bottoms is his last hope of a home.

But Chris hasn’t reckoned on his late uncle’s will. The house comes with a sitting porcine tenant and if Chris can’t look after his newly-acquired pet pig, he’ll lose his inheritance and his last chance at happiness.

When Tarquin sees Chris it’s lust at first sight, but dare he be honest about his feelings in a village where being gay is bound to be a hot topic? As soon as Chris and Tarquin get together, it’s the hottest summer this little corner of England has ever known.

With a scheming local hotshot out to turn the beloved pig into sausages, can the captain and the squire save everybody’s bacon?

REVIEW:

Tarquin Bough – pronounced Boff, not Bow, please and thank you very much- seems forever destined to be enemies with his next door neighbors, the Hardacres. The recently deceased Beardsley Hardacre was “a dreadful old git”, and his heir, Christian might turn out to be a different kind and even more of a pain. Because, of course, his new nemesis is insufferably gorgeous while Tarquin, engaged to Petunia, can’t allow himself to notice details like his neighbor’s detectable bum, squeezable, toned arms or kissable lips.

All would be all right, he just has to keep out of temptation’s way. Alas, the fates have other plans, and wherever he turns, Chris seems to be there. In his house, in his stables, in the village. Mainly, at least initially, because Tarquin has something Chris desperately needs: the affection of a particularly smart porcine lady, named … wait for it… nothing less spectacular than the Oracle of Delphi, in short Orry. Seeing that Chris’s inheritance rests on convincing Orry to change its accommodations from Tarquin’s farm to Hardacre Grange, Chris is ready to do pretty much anything, even if it means walking the pet pig, reading to or serenading it. And all the better if it’s also more time with Tarquin…added bonus if the squire can be persuaded to dish out a round or two of spanking …

Tarquin, Chris and Orry are a riot. Not only that, the two authors’ story telling is so full of humor that I never stopped laughing all through the book. Not when Tarquin and Chris fought, when they were friendly to each other and amazingly, I also laughed when they were having hot, kinky sex. I kept snickering even when strange things started to happen, someone seemingly intent on turning Orry into sausages or pork.

As you can see, there’s never a dull moment in The Captain and the Squire. The book is the best kind of romantic comedy/mystery and everything about it is highly entertaining. I had the best time getting to know the village of Bough Bottoms and its inhabitants, witnessing Tarquin and Chris forget they should be enemies and becoming the most important part of each other’s lives, all while secrets are unravelled, nasty schemes get ruined…and thankfully Orry, the most amazing pig in England, can keep its hide intact.

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