Reviewed by Anna Lynn

TITLE:  Finding Home

SERIES:  Finding Series #1

AUTHOR:  Sloane Kennedy

PUBLISHER:  Self-Published

LENGTH: 160 Pages

RELEASE DATE:  June 28, 2015

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“I’ve done everything wrong, Finn. From day one. It was the only way I knew how to be with you and still be worthy of you. But I see now that I never really was.” –Callan

Vengeance. It’s the one thing on ex-cop Rhys Tellar’s mind and he’s spent every day of his two year prison sentence planning how he’ll bring down the former lover and partner who sold him out and cost four people their lives. A six month parole stint working at the CB Bar Ranch in Southwestern Montana should be the easiest thing he’s ever done. But the last thing he expects is to feel something for both the charismatic ranch hand who befriends him and the enigmatic foreman who’s pretending to be something he’s not.

A future. That’s what Finn Stewart wants, but to have it he must leave behind the man he wants above all others, his very straight boss and best friend, Callan Bale. As the only openly gay man in a small, homophobic community, Finn has to fight every day to be who he is and walking away is starting to seem like the easier path. Until Rhys Tellar shows up and changes everything.

A Lie. Callan Bale’s entire life has been about hiding the man he really is and it’s about to cost him the one person who’s managed to worm his way past the walls he’s spent years putting up. But choosing Finn would mean giving up everything he’s worked for and breaking the promises he’s made. At least losing the younger man to Rhys means Finn can have the life he deserves.

Three men. Three choices. One chance at finding home.

REVIEW:

Ms. Sloane Kennedy is one of the best authors we have in the MM genre. She is well-known for her Protector series which is currently at book 13. She has her other series also like the Barretti Security Series, The Pelican Bay Series, The Four are only a few of them. Her books are known for being high in angst, and the series I am about to start reviewing (sort of a flashback) is one of her most popular one.

Being treated as a pariah in your own town will drive most people to run away, but there are a few who would stick it out for a number of reasons. It could be that he has nowhere else to go. He is not confident enough to strike out on his own so he would take all the homophobia and the abuse people will dole out. But sometimes, he would stick it out because there are people who care enough for him to stand by his side, no matter what the cost to them. And for Finn, that person is Callan Bale.

Callan is now managing their family’s ranch. He took over when his father got sick. He has been friends with Finn ever since Callan’s father hired Finn’s father to be the ranch foreman. Young Finn always follow him around. But after what happened to Finn that fateful night after his high school graduation when his father nearly beat Finn to death, his father got fired and left town. Cal has been there for Finn even more. And even though the ranch is slowly losing everything, livestock dying or injured, water holes poisoned, fences broken, still Cal and Finn are working hard to keep it standing. Cal never came out to his father before his father got sick and now it is too late.

Along comes Rhys, whose friend Frank recommended him to Callan for work during the six months required for his parole. Rhys was a former cop whose partner and lover got involved in selling the safe house location of one of their informants that resulted to the death of that informant and his family, along with two Agents who were guarding them. It was Rhys’ word against his, and Rhys lost. Now, he just wants to finish the six months and then he goes back to Chicago to settle some scores.

These men have been hurt in different unspeakable ways (I had to literally stop reading to catch my breath during those parts). Ways that we hope our children will never go through. No one person should ever go through the pains these three men went through in their lives. And to live in a town where homophobia is an everyday occurrence, you will be enraged with how these people treat them. You won’t believe the small-mindedness of these people. Rhys coming into Cal and Finn’s lives is fate. He was sent there to complete what was missing in these men’s lives. He was sent into their lives to make the townspeople see how their homophobia and their small-mindedness have resulted to animosity and chaos.

Ms. Sloane Kennedy is known for the high-level of angst you get from her books, and I tell you in this series, you may need to surround yourself with tissue, blanket and just enough comfort food to get you through it. But it is so good, you will get addicted to it, as I did in every one of her books, and you will not be able to wait to read the next book!

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