


Pretty much no one on the ranch is happy to see him, but reluctantly let him stay for a few days to sort himself out, and hopefully understand what happened. Martin makes his way to Crooked Tree Ranch in Montana, hoping to talk to Justin and ask him why he didn’t kill him. Martin has had a horrible childhood, surviving some bad shit that went down with his father, that relates to things that happened earlier in this series, involving Justin.

Unfortunately I found that I don’t remember enough of the past books and the story to know who Martin was, so I was a little lost at times, and had a hard time getting into Martin as a character… But what I did get out of this was the story of Martin and Tyler falling in love while camping and working on a geology project in the wilds of Crooked Tree Ranch. I was surprised to see RJ Scott was taking us back to Crooked Tree Ranch, I apparently missed that on social media! I had thought we had seen the last of this series with the last book, so I was curious to see what this one would be about. The installation should be his entire focus, but the lure of sapphires and his attraction to a heartbroken young man called Martin is enough to make him want more Sent to Crooked Tree by his employer, the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, he is tasked with adding a new remote station to the network. Tyler Colby has identified a major flaw in the seismic mapping system used to monitor earthquake activity. Thanks to the man who called him brave and spared his life, he no longer has to look over his shoulder, but he does have one question. The son of a murderer, he’s had no childhood lost in a horrific holding pattern of death that turned his heart to stone. Martin’s name was the very last on a kill list. When they spend time alone on a Montana mountainside will Tyler ever convince Martin that like sapphires, love is worth searching for?
