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Rough Stock |  | Author: Cat Johnson
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 182164
Media: Paperback
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1605047759
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781605047751
ASIN: 1605047759
Publication Date: July 6, 2010
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Product Description
 The heart wants what it wants⦠ Bronc riders Mason and Clay have shared both good times and bad as best friends, but they never expected to share their boss’s daughter, April. Can two friends love one woman, body and soul, without it destroying them?  The heart wants what it wants. For April that means not choosing between the two cowboys she loves, no matter how wrong it may seem inviting them both into her bed.  Life sends the three lovers in opposite directions, but a devastating injury brings them all together again. Their relationship now is no less bittersweetâor complicatedâthan before. Once severed, old ties leave scars that are tough to heal⦠ Warning: When you choose a man who thinks 8 seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. In other words: Watch out, this book contains hot ménage sex with two cowboys and the woman they love. Â
Book Description
Bronc riders Mason and Clay have shared both good times and bad, but they never expected to share their boss’s daughter, April. Can two friends love one woman, without it destroying them? The heart wants what it wants. For April that means not choosing between the cowboys she loves, no matter how wrong it may seem inviting them both into her bed. Life sends the three lovers in opposite directions, but a devastating injury brings them together again. Their relationship now is no less bittersweetâor complicatedâthan before. Once severed, old ties leave scars that are tough to healâ¦
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 5 blue ribbons from Romance Junkies December 3, 2008
C. Dionne (Cloverdale, OREGON USA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Mason Smith and Clay Harris are the best of friends and like most friends they share everything. For the first time it looks like something (or someone) has the potential to come between them. At the age of thirteen they became friends with their boss's daughter April and over the past five years the threesome have been practically inseparable. Lately Mason and Clay have noticed that April isn't the same little girl they befriended - she's now their `very hot' female friend.
April's feelings for Mason and Clay have evolved beyond simple friendship. She's in love with them and has no intention of choosing one man over the other. She's not entirely comfortable with her feelings, after all what does loving two men say about her? April's well aware their lives are about to change. High school is over and they'll all be going their separate ways but for now they have a whole summer to explore their feelings.
Mason and Clay's love for horses and ranching culminate in dreams of rodeoing together. They never anticipated falling in love with April or the confusing way their summer romance would turn out. While the men tried to come to grips with their feelings about sharing April, she struggles with her own issues - including her plans for attending college in New York. Mason and Clay have more to contend with then just their confusion over their feelings over the situation, April `shuts down' and avoids them after every encounter and neither of the men understand what's going on with her. Mason knows that he isn't talented enough to make it as a bronc rider so he's made plans to join the Army. He figures that Clay and April will become an exclusive couple once he's gone but he doesn't take into consideration that Clay will be traveling from rodeo to rodeo and April will spend the next several years in a New York college. Life sent these young lovers in different directions, is there any hope that they can recapture the love they once shared once they reunite?
Cat Johnson ventures into a new romance genre with her latest romance - ROUGH STOCK. Ms. Johnson's well known for her military romances due to the success of the TASK FORCE ZETA series but in ROUGH STOCK she tries her hand at writing a ménage-a-trois story and I must say she does a beautiful job. Mason, Clay and April travel the highs and lows of friendship and love together and readers get to come along for the ride. I developed a real fondness for these characters from the very beginning when Mason and Clay enacted a little rough justice of their own after April's prom date manhandled her. There was some real poetic justice in that whole scenario and it really shows the mettle of these men. ROUGH STOCK encompasses some of my favorite types of romance subjects - cowboys, military men, and a ménage relationship - into one storyline. This story teases, tantalizes and gives readers a sense that this sort of relationship really can survive anything - even time and distance. Once again Cat Johnson doesn't disappoint and proves that she's an author who can tell a story with plenty of heart and heat.
Chrissy Dionne (courtesy of Romance Junkies)
Cat Johnson Does it Right the First Time!!! June 11, 2009
Chasity Carter (California)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you want a book you can't put down, this is it. A pro known for her military romances, Cat Johnson comes out of the closet with a huge bang and a lot to celebrate. Rough Stock was one of those books that grabbed you with its tempting book synopsis and refused to let go until the very last word. Some folks are destined to write in one genre, but Johnson isn't one of them. Versatile and completely unique, this is a book for your keeper shelf and if you don't have one of those 'keeper shelves' started, get one. Rough Stock belongs there. Johnson is going to the top of my TBB and TBR piles and earns my vote for one of my favorite authors. In fact, it's time to make another purchase.
Rough Stock February 13, 2009
M. Nix
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
April, Mason and Clay have been the three musketeers for a number of years. The problem seems to be that sometime between their junior and senior year in high school April has turned into the girl of Mason and Clay's dreams. Now suddenly they are all feeling things that they have been taught are not proper. Can two friends love one woman without making her choose, and if she chooses what will happen to them all? If she doesn't choose, are the consequences something they can mentally live through?
April can't and won't choose and no matter how wrong it seems, she invites them both to her bed. But what will happen after their senior year when Mason joins the Army, April goes to NYU and Clay pursues a rodeo career?
Rough Stock shows that Cat Johnson can step outside of her comfort zone of the hot military man romance and dabble in the life of cowboys and ménage. I was pulled in from the start as the characters were as unsure of what to do as real people would be. Ms. Johnson is known to have a little turmoil in her romances and this one was no different, though in Rough Stock we were able to see into the different life paths that the characters were pursuing and ultimately how they belonged together. While I am still a huge fan of Ms. Johnson's Task Force Zeta stories I thoroughly enjoyed Rough Stock and will definitely buy her next cowboy romance.
Tanya
Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed
 Not so rough and a little tame... August 25, 2010
Nancy Canu (Staten Island, NY United States)
The two heroes, Mason and Clay, aren't bad, although the descriptions of them are sketchy. The heroine, April, is a doormat, and quite frankly I didn't like her very much. In my opinion, a young woman who makes it clear she wants to have sex with two men at the same time should have more of a backbone. Yes, she's young, but she also comes across as very passive. *SPOILER ALERT* She gets pregnant and has a miscarriage and uses that as a reason to cut off communication with both guys - because her heart was somehow broken by this event? And if she's (apparently) so embarrassed by having had the miscarriage, why does she tell them? It just doesn't work. I would have been happier if Mason and Clay had declared their love for each other and dumped April - it would have made more sense and been much more fun to read.
 Rough Stock January 2, 2009
Kelly (Littleton, Colorado)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Clay Harris, April Carson, and Mason Smith grew up together, but it wasn't until they were getting ready to graduate from high school that their relationship changed forever. For the first time, Clay and Mason didn't see April as their pal, but as the woman she was becoming. They all fought the growing feelings between them, but eventually gave into the mounting lust. All three enjoyed a summer full of fun and love before life guided them in different directions. Clay continued on his current path in the pro rodeo circuit, April headed to college in the east, and Mason found his future in the military.
They never imagined that they would end up losing touch with each other, and having a distance between them that equaled the miles that separated them. The reason for this was revealed to be that one friend harbored a secret so great it couldn't be contained. Regardless of how their lives changed, two friends dropped everything to be near their third after a life threatening injury jeopardized a life they dearly loved.
I was looking forward to this book, but ended up being very disappointed after reading it. The story premise sounded promising, but didn't deliver. The characters lacked development, and were one-dimensional. The sex scenes were barely tolerable not generating the chemistry and heat to draw the reader in. Many times either the story or the sex is lacking, but unfortunately in this case both are. Not a recommended read.
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