Kaje Harper's Reviews > The Heart of Texas

This is a real romance-with-family-drama, and the twists in the plot of family dysfunction and feuding come fast and furious. The romance part is very sweet, very hot, and pretty credible. The relationship between Riley and Jack begins as a sort of twisted sham-marriage and fairly quickly becomes real. I did think the GFY element sort of disappeared without any real consideration or hesitation on Riley's part. But maybe having a bi best friend for so many years really did make Riley so comfortable with the idea that he didn't question his attraction to a man when it happened.

The bad guy is pretty unredeemable, but most of the secondary characters are interesting and turn out to have hidden depths. And Jack and Riley together are more than worth the price of admission.