Saving Faithless Creek

Blair is being used and manipulated by his father. In the process he is forced to face his worst high school fears. But nothing goes quite to plan and in the end both men are surprised at the new direction in their lives.

Everyone knows I love Andrew Grey, and most every book he writes is a home run for me, well you can add Saving Faithless Creek high on that home run list, this book is stunning!
I love how we are drawn to Blair at the first of the book, and just fall more in love with him as the book progresses, I also love his friend Todd, and the dynamic between them is awesome, I hope we see Todd again soon (not so subtle hint hint :P).
Blair is at the mercy of his penny pinching, iron fisted, casino mogul father in exchange for his father paying for his college education, when his dad sends him to Newton, bad memories from the year he went to high school there resurface.
Royal doesn't remember Blair at first when he comes to his ranch looking to obtain it for his father for raising beef, and when he learns how his abuse in high school affected Blair's life, he is truly remorseful. That is one of the things I love about this book, the bullying isn't sugarcoated or made light of, it is dealt with and a former bully has to face the guilt of his actions.
The sparks fly, and when I say fly, you better get back or you will be burned by a cinder ;p, and as Royal and Blair get closer, Blair starts to see the appeal of ranch life, but could he lose Royal and Faithless Creek Ranch because of his underhanded father? Will he be able to get out from under the tyrants thumb once and for all?
You have to grab this book friends, you will learn the answer to these questions and much much more! Thank you Andrew, for re-enforcing why I love your writing so!

There's always two sides of a coin. Once a bully, not always a bully, sometimes there's a backstory as to why a person lashes out at someone innocent.
Royal bullied Blair so bad in high school, Blair moved away after only a year of living there. Over the years Blair as learned to defend himself from guys like Royal, or at least guys like Royal used to be. Something has changed in the man that caused Blair nightmares when he was a teen. However, the true bully in this story isn't the one Blair thought it was.
Royal is a changed man, seeing devastation of war and losing people close to him. He runs Faithless Creek Ranch after the death of his father and is struggling. His father wasn't too good with the books.
Andrew Grey has the uncanny ability to create characters you love to bits and characters you just hate on sight and you cannot wait till they get their comeuppance. That's the only thing I wasn't too keen on, is what happened with the real bully.
Make sure you have time to read this book when you pick it up to read because you won't want to put it down. I read this all the way through without stopping. The characters were well developed, the plot was well thought out.

This is a story of overcoming bullying and of seeing past the façade to find the true, vicious bully while also seeing the heart of the loving, yet fearful ex-bully. We’ve all heard the axiom, a cheater cheats, or something along those lines. Well, most of us believe that about bullies too. As someone that knows for a fact that most of the bullies that hurt me are still just as hateful and hurtful as always, reading Saving Faithless Creek was a wonderful read.
I know that there are many bullies out there that are not truly wanting cause the harm they do. They act out because of fear, abuse, desperation, etc. Sometimes they are even more afraid than those they hurt, frighteningly enough. That was the case for Royal. He made Blair’s life hell, to the point his mother moved him away from there to protect her son.
But Blair’s all grown up and his snake of a father has sent him back to the place he never wants to go, to deal with a man he wishes never to have to see again. Buying one ranch and part of another shouldn’t be too hard since the owners had shown interest already. Right? Well… things don’t go quite as planned.
Saving Faithless Creek is Grey at his best! He took from his own teen years and then added in what makes Andrew Grey HEAs so powerful. The characters are deep and multifaceted. The story is, just, WOW – on so many levels. The sex is H O T. I love how he took reality, but twisted it to make the bully redeemable… well, one of the bullies, at least. The secondary characters are delightful and truly add to the story (hey, Andrew… any chance of Todd getting his HEA?). This is a true must read, especially if you were the one that was pushed into the lockers or bullied in any way as a teen.