Page Princess: RETREAT by Anne Conley

Title: RETREAT

Series: Rocco Securities #1

Author: Anne Conley

Publisher: Anne Conley

Publish Date: 11.29.2019

Category /Genre: Contemporary Romance

Recommended for: 18+ due to sexual content

Grammar/editing: book received as an unedited ARC / errors excused

Received from: Anne Conley

Goodreads link: Retreat

Date completed: 10.15.2019; 11.30.2019

Description from the publisher:

Indie lives in hell. Her life is nothing like she expected it to be, so when Evan Rocco and his wife Paige offer to take her away for a while, she jumps at the chance.

This book has triggers. A lot of them. This is your warning.

Montana is just what she needs: mountains, streams, wide-open spaces … and Cash.

Cash’s life isn’t anything like he’d planned … until Indie shows up at the ranch where he works. There’s something about her that tugs at his protective instincts, and he simply can’t resist her.

Unfortunately, finding each other doesn’t mean life is going to go the way they expect it to.

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RETREAT is the first book in the Rocco Securities series. I predict another must-read series!

The Rocco brothers from Pierce Securities are going to Montana to visit mom and dad. Evan’s wife, Paige has invited one of her computer company interns to come along, as a way to escape a hellish existence at home. This is not hyperbole. Her mother’s ex-boyfriend is the bogeyman of every woman’s nightmares.

Austin, TX may have been full of Urban Cowboys (yes, I loved the movie – and I’ll soon be meeting the star – squeeeee!), but in this small Montana town – that is never named – Indie finds her “retreat” and a real cowboy named Cash. They are two spiritually broken people who seem naturally to gravitate to one another despite their own reluctance.

I love Cash’s gentle nature that he shows first with the skittish horse that is on the ranch for rehabilitation and then uses similar techniques with Indie.

I applaud Anne Conley for her gentle touch in approaching the sensitive subjects that her muse insisted had to be broached in this story – self-harm, rape, kidnapping, and more. There are scenes that can be triggers … or perhaps they can be used as steps to healing… you are not alone.

Note: While I received this book as a gifted copy, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

Rocco Securities Series:

1. Retreat

Also from Anne Conley:

· Best Laid Plans of Boys and Men

· Break of Dawn

· Fated to Mate (Paranormal Dating Agency)

· The Fixer Upper

· Fortune’s Kiss (Meet Cute)

Book Bitches series:

1. Power of Love

2. Master of Love