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Nowhere Ranch Kindle Edition

by Heidi Cullinan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Love will grow through the cracks you leave open.

Ranch hand Roe Davis absolutely never mixes business with pleasure—until he runs into his boss, Travis Loving, at the only gay bar within two hundred miles.

Getting involved with the ranch owner is a bad idea, but Roe’s and Travis’s bedroom kinks line up against one another like a pair of custom-cut rails. As long as they’re both clear this is sex on the side, no relationship, no interfering with the job, they could make it work.

Shut out by his family years ago, Roe survived by steadfastly refusing to settle into so much as a post office box. As his affair with Travis grows into more than just sex, Roe’s past catches up with him, threatening the thin ray of happiness he’s found, reminding him it’s well past time he went on his way.

But even a loner gets lonely, and at this point, there’s nowhere left to run. The shame and sorrow of what he’s lost will stay with Roe wherever he goes—until he’s ready to let love lead him home.

This novel has been previously published and has been revised from its original release.
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Heidi Cullinan is one of the undisputed queens of scorching gay romance. Long may she reign! -- Christopher Rice, New York Times Bestselling Author ...political and powerful and brilliant... Passion and angst and anger are what it's all about. -- Dear AuthorFive enthusiastic stars! -- The Romance Reviews...beautifully and poignantly narrated -- Sinfully... Addicted to All Male Romance

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00U6QQP3Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Heidi Cullinan; 2nd edition (March 1, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 393 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 161 pages
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Heidi Cullinan

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Heidi Cullinan has always enjoyed a good love story, provided it has a happy ending. Proud to be from the first Midwestern state with full marriage equality, Heidi is a vocal advocate for LGBT rights. She writes positive-outcome romances for LGBT characters struggling against insurmountable odds because she believes there’s no such thing as too much happy ever after. When Heidi isn't writing, she enjoys cooking, reading, playing with her cats, and watching television with her family. Find out more about Heidi at heidicullinan.com.

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D.Hart, RCIS
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderul, amazing, deeply passionate M/M tale !!!
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2016
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This beautiful story has a bit of everything. We have deep thought filled characters, a steady flowing plot that holds our attention, and very hot sex scenes, including BDSM, fisting, and "pony" play, but SO MUCH MORE. There are tough topics engaged also. Why can parents have children and then reject them when they turn out different than expected? Didn't Jesus say to love everyone? How can you let go of past mental abuse and move on? How can you open up and let love enter after the loss of love? This emotional tale is packed full of questions, answers and hope.
Travis Loving, owner of the Nowhere Ranch, is tall and broad, and a few inches shorter than Roe, his new ranch hand. Roe, 25, is tall, thin, strong, while Loving, 40, is a big, burly, fit, bear. Roe is valuable on the job because his knowledge of sheep farming is vast. A few months into the job, they each take off for a weekend away from the ranch. The only gay bar is two hundred miles away, and it's there they unexpectedly see each other. The sexual relationship begins there, and their needs fit. Their kinks, wants, and fetishes are colliding and melding. Back home, they keep it professional, until Roe gets a demeaning letter from his cousin. He falls apart and Travis is there to hold him up. These guys are so great together as their feeling grow. We get honesty, openness, acceptance, understanding, and a version of heaven is found. Other characters play a role in their "healing" way as friends, and in turn, they end up helping them right back. I cannot tell you all of the great events here, because you need to experience this M/M story for yourselves. It is amazingly written by Heidi Cullinan, and will stay with you. A definite re-read.
Highly recommended. ENJOY !!!
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dbbks3
4.0 out of 5 stars The writing makes this a moving story.
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2016
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bookshelves: erotic, grabs-my-heart, m-m, made-me-think, romance-contempory, steamy
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4 1/2 stars.
Hot! Hot! Hot! Cowboys and Sex. At first I thought this was just going to be a story that was just an excuse to write erotic yet rough sex scenes. Then suddenly I was into the story and feeling the pain. The hurts of the past overlay the present for these two MCs in a deep way. A young boy wants to be a good son and works hard on the farm. He has problems in school, maybe undiagnosed dyslexic. He is gay. The so called love of his family does not embrace him. It rejects him, but worse it calls him names and tells him he is a sinner. Boy has no place to go. He leaves but cannot outrun the demons his family has stuffed into his head. He arrives at No Where Ranch a young man with no friends, no support and no future. Roe is a compelling character that gets into your heart.

And he gets into Travis' heart also. Travis has his own demons but Travis has patience for Roe. They are beautiful together. The sex is rough but consensual. Do not read this if that bothers you. Another reviewer said this is not the book for the first time M/M reader and that is so true. If you can put down your own preconceptions than you will find this a book you cannot put down. Not all love is the same, but this is a story about love, all kinds of love. Yes it is another story of making your own family but it is a good family. It is also a story of how we humans can give so much hurt to others in the name of love and God. Unfortunately so true in this world.

The secondary characters are well written although most are given too short a part. Exception is Haley. She is tough, tender and so giving and understanding for such a young person.

This is a well written story that makes the rough sex work within the plot lines. If it was not so well written it would be just another erotic story that is fun buy not worth many stars. The writing makes it more. The writing makes it a moving story.
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Amos24601
5.0 out of 5 stars Scorching and Sweet
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2020
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Where to begin? This book was so yummy and dirty, but yet sweet and poignant at the same time. There were so many layers to Roe. The initial impression you get from him is some cocky cowboy who likes to hit and quit it, and that’s mostly true. Until you realize the hurt he’s hiding under all his bluster. Travis is a literal chance encounter 3 hours away from Nowhere Ranch. Roe takes a chance and goes all in for a weekend of explicit, filthy and downright raunchy fun with his boss, thinking it’s going to be a one-time deal and then they can just go about their business. Which they do…for months. Until they end up in bed…or on the spanking bench, as it were. The sex scenes between these two were some of the hottest I’ve read in a while. Travis is thoroughly versed on how to get what he wants and he wrings every last bit out of Roe.

Aside from all the filthy fun they get up to, Roe is a complex character who is dealing with years of hurt after his family all but shuns him for being gay. He basically shuts himself off from all connections, bouncing around from place to place so he can’t put down any roots. Until Nowhere. Until Travis. Until Haley. He starts to make connections with the people of Nowhere. Travis, for his part, all but forbids Roe from running. Travis is dealing with some of his own hang-ups from a past relationship and is afraid that Roe will run and leave him. Once Roe realizes that there is a true connection with Travis, that it’s more than just some fun in the bedroom, we start to see how Travis and Roe become a true unit. Travis helps Roe through one of the hardest times in his life and we see Travis emerge as this rock for Roe.

This was a beautifully written book that allowed the reader to really see beneath the veil of these characters and connect with them. We all run from things at times, the real test is what we do when it catches up to us. Roe and Travis made for a wonderful pairing and this book was a delight to read.
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Claire
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved the book.
Reviewed in France on August 6, 2016
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The author manages to balance strong characters development, a slow-building relationship, quite some kink, ranch life and what to me is a wonderful tirade on tolerance and church message.
All these make the book so close to real life (because it never is one-sided, and no-one is ever right all the time).

I also loved the writing.
The way Roe felt hollow, how emotions were swirling and competing within him was so well expressed.

My first book from this author ... definitely not the last.
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L Unger
5.0 out of 5 stars While not always an easy book to read it is definitely worth it!
Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2014
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I found this book challenging to read. It depicts sex scenes that I'm sure fall quite far out of most people's comfort zones but they always feel genuine and honest.

Heidi Cullinan's characters feel real. Monroe is flawed and vulnerable but I really came to love him. Loving is middle aged, has some love handles but a confidence that comes from a sure knowledge of himself and what he wants out of life. Hayley is a strong young women who befriends Monroe and their relationship is what everyone would hope for with a best friend.

I find myself drawn to these characters and I have reread this book several times. Heidi Cullinan is one of my favourite authors and this is one of my favourite reads.
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Ich und Frau Schmidt
5.0 out of 5 stars Dann wage ich mich mal daran ....
Reviewed in Germany on June 30, 2015
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Bewogen, dieses Buch zu kaufen, hat mich eine Rezension von Macky vom Sinfully Sexy Books Blog in UK. Die Dame war schlichtweg begeistert und ihre lodernde! Rezension sprühte Funken. Ich habe auf der Stelle Feuer gefangen. Dieses Buch musste ich besitzen. Auf der Stelle. Ja! Ihre einleitenden Worte gingen in etwa so: Der Sex ist roh, rau, verzweifelt und nicht zurückhaltend in seiner expliziten Schilderung, der Kink Faktor ist hardcore und erbarmungslos. Pony play, puppy play, fisting, bondage, tralala ... da sind tiefe sexuelle Begegnungen, die ohne ein Blatt vor den Mund zu nehmen extrem bildhaft beschrieben sind ... und ich meine bildhaft ...

Hah! Und damit hatte sie mich!

Erzählt wird die Geschichte von Monroe Davis und Travis Loving. Monroe stammt von einem elenden, beschränkten Kaff und als sein Vater mitbekommt, dass er homosexuell ist, fliegt er von der heimischen Ranch und muss sich von da an allein durchschlagen. Travis ist ein ehemaliger Uni Dozent und irgendwie Aussteigertyp, der eine eigene kleine Ranch bewirtschaftet. Und Monroe und Travis kommen auf der Nowhere Ranch zusammen. Irgendwie hört sich das ja ziemlich harmlos an ...
Die Sache ist die, wie sie zusammenkommen oder ZUSAMMEN KOMMEN?!

Ganz ehrlich. Ich hab schon so Einiges im BDSM Genre gelesen. Aber die Sexszenen ließen mich das Buch dann doch aus der Hand legen. Da brauchte man ernsthaft eine Verschnaufpause zwischendurch. Es ist schon ziemlich hart. Das heißt in gar keinem Fall, dass das Buch Schwächen aufweisen würde. Ganz im Gegenteil. Es ist wahnsinnig gut geschrieben - aber so verdammt intensiv, dass man wirklich Zeit zum Verarbeiten brauchte. Junge, Junge.

Die Geschichte von Roe und Travis ist stark (nicht schön oder toll oder irgendetwas anderes). Und einzig die wirlich gelungene Nebenfigur von Haley macht die ganze Sache etwas weicher und nimmt die extrem scharfen Kanten.

Losgelöst von den schon erwähnten Sexszenen ist die Handlung sehr emotional und lässt einen nicht kalt. Ich bin froh, Nowhere Ranch entdeckt zu haben und es wird für mich immer ein All time Favorit bleiben.
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Simon
5.0 out of 5 stars I put aside my Predjudices and loved Nowhere Ranch
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2015
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I bought and downloaded Nowhere Ranch on the strength of a friend's review, before checking her tags. Two of those tags were "BDSM" and something which I daren't write here in case Amazon rejects my review...let's just say..."insertion of a hand ".
OK! - Big, ginormous mistake! Read this quick, skim the pornographical, kinky-sex paragraphs and mark it up as a big, ginormous mistake.....
Well - I loved it and I didn't skim.
This novel is so much more than kinky sex and what kinkiness there is, does not last long and is not pornographically detailed, rather it is reported. I admit that extreme sexual play is not my thing in M/M Romance and this is "Romance" with a lot of love, caring, trust.
The main character Roe narrates the story and his narration is simplistically mid-western. I warmed to him from that very first, opening sentence. His need for aggressive, rough, sexual encounters is not so much raunchy as sad. But then he meets up with his boss at an out-of-town bar and their sexual compatibility is realised.
I think author and amateur reviewer Kaje Harper expresses what I wanted to say best,
"I don't read a lot of BDSM, but in Heidi Cullinan's hands it makes visceral sense to me. I can see why a character needs it, why it makes him feel safer and more centered. The roughness and pain, the trust and control, make sense for both Dom and sub.".

Loved it, once I'd put aside my prejudices I enjoyed Nowhere Ranch for what it is, a very perceptive, emotional M/M romantic story (with a bit of hard-core explicitness thrown into the core).
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timothy phillips
4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely read
Reviewed in Australia on May 30, 2015
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Romance between two people who didn't expect love and commitment - love grows as their lives change due to circumstances they didn't anticipate.
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