I seem to be reading a lot of books with hay in them lately. Tess is a dairy farmer who is trying to get her farm approved as an organic one. She's doing fine, although the lack of rain is starting to worry her as well as her neighbors.

Then Clay, an Energy VP comes into town with her father's company because that company are planning on fraking for energy under the farms that are just outside of town, including possibly on the farm next to Tess. And, of course, Tess and Clay have quite the history too. They had known each other at one point before they went to college and it didn't end well.

The plot is part romance of course, and there is some bit of a mystery too. Will Tess and Clay get back together or not, and who is trying to get Clay and her company out of the town in a sometimes violent way?

The writing of course was great. It's Radclyffe, she's a very solid writer and the book flowed really well.

But, I did have a couple of problems with the book. The first was that although there was such a great build up in the beginning and middle and then the end of the book seemed very, very rushed and then in a blink, it was over, but it didn't feel like it was over to me.

There was also the fact that at the beginning the whole Tess/Clay relationship seemed so widely hot and cold, which is true life, but in the context of the story seemed wrong. The whole Ella feint seemed totally off too (and I admit that I was rooting for Tess/Ella a little bit and I'd very much love to read a book about Ella on her own too).

Overall it was a solid book and for the most part I did like it. I just felt like the book stopped and didn't really end.

I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books. ( )

I have heard of the one they call 'Radclyffe' but have never read anything of her rather prolific collection of ff romance. I shall remedy this.

Ebook provided by NetGalley.