GuestReview by Tammy
TITLE: Hard Road Back 
AUTHOR: Andrew Grey
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 200 pages
RELEASE DATE: May 5, 2020
BLURB:
Rancher Martin Jamuson has a deep understanding of horses. He just wishes his instincts extended to his best friend, Scarborough Croughton, and the changes in their feelings toward each other. Martin may be the only friend Scarborough has in their small town, but Scarborough is a man of secrets, an outsider who’s made his own way and believes he can only rely on himself when the chips are down. Still, when he needs help with a horse, he naturally comes to Martin.
As they work together, Martin becomes more determined than ever to show Scarborough he’s someone he can trust… maybe someone he can love. Even if it risks their friendship, both men know the possibility for more between them deserves to be explored. But when Scarborough’s past re-emerges, it threatens his home, horses, career, and even their lives. If they hope to survive the road before them, they’ll have to walk it together… and maybe make the leap from cautious friends to lovers along the way.
REVIEW:
Martin Jamuson and Scarborough Croughton have been best friends for fifteen years. Yet, for all that they are best friends at times Martin acknowledges that he knows little about Scarborough. As time passes Martin knows he wants more than simple friendship with Scarborough, his chance arrives in the form of an abused horse Black Beauty, Scarborough bought at auction.
Scarborough has never had anyone to rely on so he has always relied on himself. It’s a hard habit to break especially when, having lived in their small town for fifteen years he is still treated as an outsider because he behaves like an outsider. Scarborough is a penny pincher; he knows it but as it is now an ingrained habit from when he was kicked out of home and always had to watch every penny he had just so he could eat.
Working with Scarborough every day Martins tries to make him unwind enough to reveal why he is so closed off from the world. Unfortunately, there’s no miraculous breakthrough until Scarborough receives an invitation to his twenty-year school reunion. After assuring Scarborough that he would not be on his own should he decide to go Martin and Scarborough leave on their road trip to Nebraska. Whilst they were there Martin learns that Scarborough’s father physically threw him out of his family home, convincing him his friends would never accept him because he was gay. The reunion proved Scarborough’s was father wrong but getting Scarborough to accept it is a whole other matter!
Martin has his work cut out for him in Hard Road Back. Not only does he have to work through Black Beauty’s problems he has to help Scarborough get past his fathers’ abuse to realise he is worthy of being loved and loving a man, any man, but hopefully Martin!!
I urge you to grab a copy of Hard Road Back so you too can discover and enjoy Martin and Scarborough’s world.
RATING: 
BUY LINKS: