Release Blitz and Review: Desert Dreams by RJ Scott

and V.L. Locey

Genre: Contemporary, GLBTQ, MM, New Adult

Themes: Sports, Hockey, Former Abuse, Shelter Ranch

Released: October 14, 2021

Publisher: Love Lane Books

Series: Owatonna U, Book 6

Length: 28,000

Cover Design: Meredith Russell

Synopsis

When danger stalks their new home, it’s only their strength as a couple that keeps them safe.

Ryker misses Jacob every day he’s away. At the start of a new Raptors season with everything to play for, Jacob, the desert ranch, and their small menagerie of animals have become an oasis of peace in a turbulent world. He’s never ridden a horse, he’s never considered how much this place would mean to him, but suddenly he’s forming a connection with a mare called Tops and loving every moment of this new life. Balancing hockey with his love for Jacob, he feels that nothing can ever go wrong.

With his life finally on track, Jacob is pouring all of himself into the dream he shares with Ryker. Putting the final touches on Mountain Vista Ranch, a halfway home for troubled LGBTQ youth and their families, fills his heart with pride. When their first clients arrive, he finds himself drawn to the small family and their plight. Little does he or Ryker know that the darkness the newcomers have fled from is following them.

This story is best read as part of the series. It can’t be read as a standalone.

The Owatonna U Series is a spin-off from the best-selling Harrisburg Railers Hockey Series. From the authors of bestselling MM Hockey Romance, RJ Scott & V.L. Locey.

Owatonna – RJ Scott & V.L. Locey in the reading order:
Changing Lines (Railers 1)
First Season (Railers 2)
Deep Edge (Railers 3)
Poke Check (Railers 4)
Last Defense (Railers 5)
Goal Line (Railers 6)
Ryker (Owatonna 1)
Neutral Zone (Railers 7)
Hat Trick (Railers 8)
Scott (Owatonna 2)
Save the Date (Railers 9)
Benoit (Owatonna 3)
Coast to Coast (Raptors 1)
Across the Pond (Raptors 2)
Christmas Lights (Owatonna 4)
Shadow and Light (Raptors 3)
Sugar and Ice (Raptors 4)
School and Rock (Raptors 5)
Baby Makes Three (Railers 10)
Valentine’s Hearts (Owatonna 5)
Lost in Boston (Free prequel novella) (Boston Rebels 0)
Top Shelf (Boston Rebels 1)
Back Check (Boston Rebels 2)
Desert Dreams (Owatonna 6) pre-order
Snowed (Boston Rebels 3) – (December 2021) sign up for a release reminder – http://www.rjscott.co.uk/read-snow/ed

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Spicy, tender and tense – so good!!

Oh my! This may not be a really long novella but it sure packed a punch. Ryker and Jacob are settling into life on their ranch in Arizona and things are good but there are rumors of a trade and that leaves Ryker unsettled. Jacob is getting help and advice on how to set up their halfway home for troubled LGBTQ youth with someone RJ fans will recognize.

Ryker and Jacob have such great plans for helping LGBTQ youth and families and they get their first family sooner than expected. Unfortunately, that family has problems that follow them. Ryker and Jacob reach out for help with security and it arrives in the form of a big Russian who loves to dress like Roy Rogers.

If I give too many more details it will give too much of the story away. I loved this so much and getting to visit with old friends was wonderful. If you love dogs and other animals there are some great scenes in this book. While the story does turn dark in a couple of places the animals provide light-hearted relief and fans know that RJ and V.L. will have all of the darkness dissipate before the story ends.

If you’ve read RJ and V.L.’s hockey series you won’t want to miss this one. I hope these stories continue for many more books.

♥♥♥♥♥

O Factor: Spicy

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Excerpt

“This is Max.” Jacob held the phone out to me. “He looks like a happy kid,” Jacob murmured.

I glanced at my husband to see the light in his eyes. One day he might want kids—surrogacy, adoption, somehow, we’d be extending our family—and how could we do that if I was traded up to Montreal or Vancouver and he was here in Arizona?

“He’s the best.” Jack beamed. “All four of the kids ride, and because of Max we have a horse therapy program for children at the D.”

Of course, they did, because Jack clearly had a grip on his life and could work magic, and managed to have his whole world on an even keel.

“We’re uncles,” Jacob said proudly. “Show Jack a photo.” He looked at me pointedly.

I could see the tension bracketing his eyes. I was fucking up, and he’d been planning for this visit for weeks. After all, it had been Jack’s Legacy Ranch that had inspired Jacob.

“Sorry, yeah.” I scrolled to a picture of little Charlotte on my cell, my heart swelling with love at seeing her cheeky smile, and showing Jack who made all the right noises, and called her hella cute. She was hella cute, and in that particular photo, she was in a tiny Raptors shirt that I’d sent to Dad and Ten.

“I’m actually kind of her big brother, Jacob’s like an uncle, but biologically—it’s complicated.”

“Life always is.” Jack laughed. “And that’s your team?” he asked, smiling at me, waiting for me to give the best answer I could think of.

“Yeah, the Arizona Raptors, in Arizona.” Duh. The fuck, Ryker?

“I never get that.” Jack wrinkled his nose. “I get ice in Canada, that’s perfectly okay, I mean, it’s cold. But we have a team in Dallas, you know them, yeah?”

“There are only thirty-two teams, so we play them.” Jeez, way to sound condescending.

Jack shook his head. “Ice. In Dallas. Makes as much sense as ice in Arizona.”

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About Author

RJ Scott, author of M/M romance.

Writing love stories with a happy ever after – cowboys, heroes, family, hockey, single dads, bodyguards

USA Today bestselling author RJ Scott has written over one hundred romance books. Emotional stories of complicated characters, cowboys, single dads, hockey players, millionaires, princes, bodyguards, Navy SEALs, soldiers, doctors, paramedics, firefighters, cops, and the men who get mixed up in their lives, always with a happy ever after.

She lives just outside London and spends every waking minute she isn’t with family either reading or writing. The last time she had a week’s break from writing, she didn’t like it one little bit, and she has yet to meet a box of chocolates she couldn’t defeat.

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V.L. Locey

V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, Torchwood and Dr. Who, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.)

She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a pair of geese, far too many chickens, and two steers.

When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in one hand and a steamy romance novel in the other.

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