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| Tabula Rasa | 
 enlarge | Author: Tory Temple
Publisher: Torquere Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 160370194X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781603701945
Publication Date: August 12, 2008
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Rodeo cowboy Teagan has inherited his father's ranch, and it's in a bad way. He needs to work the rodeo circuit hard to make enough money to pay the bills, so he starts looking for a rodeo partner. Team roper Cash is just the ticket. He's not the friendliest sort, but he has a good seat and a better roping arm, so Teagan takes Cash on, and as they get to know each other, things start to heat up fast. Maybe too fast. When Teagan finds out he's not the only one Cash has in the saddle, things go bad, and Teagan thinks he and Cash are over for good. When he gets the call that Cash has had an accident, though, he knows he has to go and see if he can make good. He cares too much about Cash to just let it go. Like any good rodeo ride, Teagan and Cash have ups and downs, crashing and burning as often as they blaze bright. Can they work through all of the deception and stubborn pride to find a love that works as smoothly as their roping? Tory Temple is the author of such popular titles as Heat and Flashover, which are combined in paperback in Fireline.
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 Very, very good October 6, 2008
Tory Temple has the uncanny ability to write a gay male story as if she were a man. I do not know how she captures the stubbornness, pride, ego and just plain difficulty that competitive men have in making a relationship work, but she does. I was afraid that the use of amnesia might have turned into your typical plot devise, but somehow it just worked. I also was impressed that she never really describes what the main character, Teagan Rafferty, looks like other than to mention his blue eyes and that others think of him as "pretty". Of course we are talking tough rodeo riders and their ilk, so I think that pretty is not the same thing as one would consider in a more urbane, metrosexual environment. You do not care what he looks like because you are so into the story that it really does not matter.
I picked it up and finished it within 24 hours and I usually get bored about 60 pages in. This book (along with her Fireline series) is a must read for anyone who craves good, honest, man to man fiction.
I cannot wait for rodeo season to start up again in California after reading this book.
 Tabula Rasa March 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not bad. Action so so and the sex scenes were obviously not written by a gay male. Prostate massage has to be experienced and not vicariously. Enjoyed reading it on vacation. Although the woman passenger beside me on my fight looked a little edgy when she scanned the back cover. I told her I've had my shots and not to worry.
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I have a wonderful time reading this one. Tory is one excellent M/M romance writer. December 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love Tory's writings and this latest from her is just so well written. I easiy finished it in one sitting and just wish there is much more on these 2 interesting characters she has created.
Jodi has give a great review on this one. I just wish to add a bit on these 2 characters and their love which takes place in a very refreshing setting.
Teagan is already in his late 30s but has yet to fall in love. He is a good man and trying his best to hold on to his father's legacy. His treatment of his men and his father's wife is admirable. He is comfortable with being gay, which is not easy being a rodeo cowboy, and vents his sexual urges with aquaintances including one pair of hot brothers.
The story opens with him desperately searching for a replacement for his injured partner in the rodeo roping competition. He needs the money to keep his ranch afloat. He finds the partner in one complicated man named Cash.
Cash is a complex character and as the story is told from Teagan's viewpoint, we have to try hard to understand this man. On surface Cash is a jerk and makes no pretense about it. I find myself liking this character as the story progresses and wish more is revealed about his past.
Teagan and Cash become the perfect partners in competition and as they are both gays there is no hesitation in sex too as they lust for each other. The sex is sizzling hot and very erotic. Tory just expresses it so well. Teagan soon finds himself developing feelings for Cash which does not seem to be reciprocated. Just when Teagan is willing to give up, an accident happens which changes everything. And here I wish more is revealed about Cash's past because Cash is obviously a equally likable man once.
These 2 men never utter the 3 words throughout the story. Rare for a romance erotica but their care and love for each other is easily expressed in actions and theirs is one hot and romantic relationship.
I hope Tory does not consider their story ended because these two fascinating cowboys have so much more to tell.
 Rope 'im and Ride 'im December 4, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Teagan needs a man. He thinks he needs a "heeler," a cowboy roper as his partner to rope steers in the rodeo circuit, and he does. But he needs a man for more than that, since he's gay, been on the rodeo circuit for most of his adult life (he's about 40), is gay and horny but has never been in love. Then he meets his "heeler," Cash Whitmore, a blond dynamo bombshell, roping, riding, drinking, heart throb of a cowboy, who agrees to be his "heeler." Soon they are much more than rodeo steer roping partners. The sexual attraction between them leads quickly to hot and heavy and constant sex between them while they are traveling to and participating in rodeos.
They become happy and comfortable with one another, lots of sex, good company, and it lasts about three months until Teagan catches Cash having sex with another cowboy (a stranger) only hours after ecstatic love-making between him and Cash. Teagan is hurt and jealous, primarily because he is in love. He's never felt any of those emotions and doesn't fully understand or realize what he's feeling. He responds by getting drunk and being curt with Cash, who quickly realizes what Teagan is feeling and, thinking he doesn't feel the same way (actually, he might, he just is afraid to face what he feels), Cash pushes Teagan away.
At this point, the book is about half over. Teagan and Cash go on in the rodeos as partners (successfully in the arena) for about two months, Teagan miserable, Cash not present (probably just as miserable). Cash has an accident, leaving him with amnesia that covers the past six months or so, including his earlier affair with Teagan. Teagan lies to him about their former relationship. The two develop a strong lover relationship (again) while Cash is recovering. When Cash remembers what his amnesia and Teagan's fib kept from him, fireworks result.
I enjoyed the romance between these two characters. There was a lot of stereotyping/cowboy template going on, but I liked the two main characters and Lori, Devin and Dusty, some secondary characters. There were some hot sex scenes, and a credible resolution of some serious conflicts between the two main characters. Not deeply intellectually challenging read, but a fun read. Worth an evening or two. Four and a half stars.
Not only hot, but incredibly moving November 20, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Teagan Rafferty's ranch is in trouble, but he's determined to do everything in his power to hang on to the property that his daddy left him when he died. He's pretty sure he can earn enough to get by on the rodeo circuit, but his rodeo partner has been injured in practice and now he's stuck without a heeler.
The search is frustrating and fruitless and things are looking grim until, mostly out of desperation, Teagan finally hunts down a cowboy called Cash and gets him to agree to be his partner for the season. Thankfully, they seem to work pretty well together, and things start to look up.
Cash has a reputation and he doesn't seem particularly talkative or friendly, but he gets the job done so Teagan can't really complain. When Teagan finds himself continually distracted by Cash's striking eyes and his lean, fit body, he does his level best to put aside his attraction to the stoic cowboy to concentrate on work, but he just can't seem to manage it. Eventually a little alcohol and adrenaline prove to be very liberating, and it isn't long before Teagan finds himself having more sex than he can handle.
What happens after that is both exhilarating and heartbreaking. Teagan and Cash prove to be an incredible match both in the rodeo ring and in the bedroom, but is it love or only lust? Their season is terrific and Teagan finds himself sending home enough money to keep the ranch afloat and begin to build it back up to what was in his father's day, but when their good fortune takes a sudden turn for the worse, everything is up in the air - not just the future of Teagan's ranch, but whatever it is he and Cash have managed to build together, too.
I don't need to tell you that Tory Temple's men are hot. You've read her firemen, you know, and these cowboys certainly don't disappoint. But this story is so much more than wrangler jeans, leather saddles and the undeniable attraction between two men. It's about trust and friendship and responsibility. It's about learning tough lessons from your mistakes. It's about the lengths to which a son will go to protect his family, his heritage and his future. And it's about love, and the many, varied and often subtle ways in which it can be expressed.
Ms. Temple's setting is rich, colorful and authentic, and her story, revolving around characters you truly care about, is every bit as beautiful. I cannot recommend Tabula Rasa highly enough.
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