A Chaotic Range (7) (Stories from the Range)

Another brilliantly written story of the Range Series by Andrew Grey. The Story line in this series continues to grow as the lives of the people on the merged ranches of Dakota/Wally and Haven/Phillip intertwine with those on their ranches and the outside world. The continuity between these stories is amazing as you find yourself a part of them. They are in the middle of a very harsh winter in the midst of a blizzard. Brian has been fired from another ranch because he was gay and the ranch hands had set him up as a thief to get rid of him. With hardly any money and very little gas he finds himself in the middle of this storm unable to see anything other than white! Ending up in a ditch, almost freezing to death, David, Haven, and Wally find him, getting him out of the car and to Haven's Ranch home. Brian finds out that this ranch was different than most, a gay friendly ranch where they are all accepted. David, who has had a very recent rocky past, realizes that he and Brian went to the same High School and knew each other. David was the School Football Captain and Brian was a quiet, gay man who had secretly had a crush on David. Haven/Dakota gives Brian a job and a place to live. During the storm the two find themselves having to go out to look for cattle that had gotten out. David sprains his ankle and Brian brings his skills in to provide warmth and shelter until someone could find them. That's when the two connect!!! The Sex gets Hot and their lives come together in a beautiful mesh, until rumors get around about Brian supposed stealing. The people on the ranch hear the rumors and check them out, but David only hears them and doubts Brian causing a distrust which causes Brian to think about running. This is a beautiful story of two people who fall in love and are strong enough to get through the struggles that life can bring. Andrew has done a great job with the character development especially of the new man who comes to them. There is such a personal touch that draws you into their lives. I highly recommend this book and this series! Love Andrew's work!!

Through this extraordinary series of gripping stories set on the Wyoming range Andrew Grey has continually drawn us into a web of intrigue, lust, love, and adventure that is held together and nurtured by a concept of family he brings to most of his series: That men in love with each other who can develop friendships and trusts with similar couples in a geographical setting become the foundations for very strong families.In this one he reunites us with the family builders, Dakota and Wally and Haven and Phillip, as they come to grips with the former high school mates accidentally reunited in a howling snowstorm--Brian and David, two early-30s guys whose lives, loves and unrequited teenage lust for each other clash, crash and almost burn in front of a whole set of ranch hands and even the small town they live near.It's beautifully written (and hot) as always and what Grey has done here is recap what has gone before in the other six books by summarizing for Brian through the words of others how this family came together and grew. This includes the fact that David was once part of it (in another book), screwed up and came back under extreme duress as sort of a prodigal son, if not lover, to Mario, whose story was chronicled in Book 6, "A Volatile Range." How Grey does this makes the reader flow through the first couple of chapters and then he grabs you with the plot and interweaving characters and will not let you go.I read this book in virtually one sitting--and I never planned that but I could not get away, which is typical of this series. Grey even introduces a couple of characters here and there that tantalize readers into thinking there could be a Book 8 coming along (please, please). But even if he doesn't do that, like his "Love is ..." series which takes place on farms in Michigan, this series sets a standard for what it means to start, grow and hold families together. Grab it now!

From the first word to the last, this book had me engaged on a journey of mega proportions. The only problem I had with it was that I wanted a picture of Brian and David on every page so that I could fall in love with them over and over again. As I read this, I could feel the cold, the warmth, the tension, the angst. Life does many things to people. It takes away, it gives back. And in A Chaotic Range it gives back by the bucketful. Andrew Grey is a master story teller, from the first paragraph he hooked me, not just a word, not just a sentence, the whole damned book had that effect on me. He takes the sadness of an unfair situation, and gradually turns it into joy. Both Brian and David's circumstances forces them to reconsider the choices they had made in their previous relationships and it becomes not only a soul searching dilemma, but a moral and ethical drama as well. They both require closure to move on and this is the theme that runs through it. Brian especially. David's inherent ability to love easily, is not only his saving grace, but it's his personality, and Brian's ability to see things and correct them with diligence, his brave heart and his ability to make good out of a bad situation, is heartwrenching. I recommend this book forever, because it's not just about a hero, it's not just about a man who must face adversity, it's about true love, and that is the most important thing for me.

Andrew's story telling ranges far and wide. This one move from a near death experience to finding love through another such experience. David and Brian's coming together almost ruined by the lies of other people but they overcame that

I have totally enjoyed this series, starting with Dakota and Wally' s story, watching them all get their own book. But it was good to catch up with David after his breakup with Mario, and see him get his hea.Andrew is a brilliant writer and Has an ability to have the reader totally caught up from the start.LOVED it, recommend it.

This book is action packed from the very beginning.Its about time David grew up and settled down. Brian is very sweet in his own little way....Great book :)

very good as good as all the others i love reading about dakota and wally range, and all the love and ranch stories with in it, as good as the last 6 books

a really great story