Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: Spotting Gold
SERIES: Foothill Pride
AUTHOR: Pat Henshaw
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
RELEASE DATE: October 5, 2025
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Exciting news abounds in Stone Acres, California, the former gold rush town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. All the couples from the Foothills Pride contemporary romance series are chatting and spreading the word.
The whispers of movie scouts in Stone Acres have the couples speculating about how a film might impact their lives. Rumor says the potential film would tell the stories of how and why the newcomers left the Bay Area to settle in the foothills.
Some of the men, like Jimmy Patterson, Fredi Zimmer, Jeff Mason, and Mitch O’Shea, think to see a movie being made could be fun. But the others, including David Fairbanks, Vic Longbow, Christopher Darling, and John Barton, think the ordeal would be horrible, everything from invasive and embarrassing to heart-breaking.
Meanwhile, as the rumors make the rounds, a couple of good old boys steal Mitch’s specialty SUV and take it for a joyride. The lark ends with the car falling into an old mine shaft, seriously injuring one of the passengers.
How does the town handle so much happening? Like the rest of us, they go to lunch and talk about it.
REVIEW:
Sorry for the delay on reviewing this story. Life got in the way and it took me a minute to get to the book to read. Then I realized I couldn’t remember the individual characters in the series, although I knew I loved it, so I did what every avid reader would do… I started over with book one and read the entire series before I read this one. It was important I felt as each section of this new story is a revisit to the characters in the original stories. Working in a backwards direction from latest to earliest couple.
I enjoyed the series a second time and then read this new set of ‘visits’ back to those characters and how they in turn are reacting to the news that a movie company wants to make a film about all the gay men who moved Stone Acres over the years and how successfully they have integrated into the community.
Now, I have to keep it real and be honest. When Dani contacted me and said there was a new Foothills Pride book, I was ecstatic. I loved the series. I was envisioning a whole new story about some heretofore unknown couple. I have to report, somewhat sadly, that it wasn’t to be. The format of the new book, with the brief vignettes on the previous couples was entertaining, don’t get me wrong, but just as I was getting into remembering one couple, I’d turn a page and we’d move on to the next.
I recommend this one, but would also recommend that if you have them, you reread the author’s Foothill Pride series before you start it, like I did. Unless your memory is a whole lot better than mine!
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