REVIEW: The Christmas Rescue by VL Locey (Laurel Holidays #4)

THE CHRISTMAS RESCUE

Laurel Holidays - Book Four

by VL Locey

Release Date: December 5, 2022

Review

Sometimes you don’t know you need rescuing until you find yourselves stuck together for the holidays.

This is a steamy MM opposite attracts romance, with a spoiled rich guy trying to prove his worth, and a nature-loving guy running an animal rescue in honour of his sister.

Set in the single POV of Decker, the over-the-top city boy whose idea of hard labour is sitting at his desk for 8 hours. He’s on a mission to get Acosta Melios to sign a lease to his land for natural gas mining, and Acosta is not having it.

Enter the battle of the grumpy farmer and the snarky business exec. And with a boatload of funny but once-forgotten animals to keep these two occupied, it’s going to be hard to remember they are at odds.

As Decker finds a calling, and Acosta finds some healing, these two also find a home together.

Though I prefer dual POVs, this was a lovely Christmas story.

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Synopsis

A city boy is about to discover the true meaning of Christmas from a man with a heart as big as the snow-covered farm he calls home.

Decker Fitzgerald is all about the job. Which explains why he’s out cruising around the snowy hillsides of the Allegheny Plateau looking for a rundown farm in the middle of a whiteout. If not for his need to prove to his father—and himself—that he is worthy, he could be down in Rio with his friends over the holidays. But no, he’s creeping along winding country roads in search of some two-bit farm animal rescue parcel that Fitzgerald Well Services is desperate to contract. Seems the owner, some long-haired hippie sort, is refusing to allow them to set up a natural gas fracking pad on his acreage. Foolish tree-hugger types. Why anyone would choose a three-legged goat over thousands of dollars of royalty checks is beyond him.

He quickly finds himself stuck in a ditch and at the mercy of the elements as the snowstorm shifts into blizzard status. It’s then that a lanky stranger with a beat up tractor comes to his rescue. When the greeting and handshake reveal his rescuer is Acosta Melios, the peculiar hipster who owns the farm rescue facility he’s here to sweet talk into signing a contract, the instant pull of those cordial gray eyes falters. That is until Decker is forced to spend several days with the genial and outgoing husbandman. Between the gentle warmth that is Acosta and the loving pull of the abandoned farm animals, Decker is finding it harder and harder to persuade the outgoing farmer into allowing his father’s company to have access to his land. What isn’t hard is falling in love with the man and his throwaway charges. That, it seems, is as easy as falling off a cranky, diabetic llama.

The Christmas Rescue is a standalone small-town gay insta-love Christmas romance with forced proximity, two incredibly opposite men, a barnful of rescued farm animals, oodles of snow, strings of popcorn on a cockeyed tree, and a festive happily-ever-after.

About VL Locey

V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, Dr. Who, Torchwood, belly laughs, yoga, reading and writing lusty tales, walking, Greek mythology, 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, and a flock of assorted domestic fowl.

When not writing lusty tales, she can be found enjoying her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania, fresh cup of java in hand.

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