This book is an environmental PSA disguised as a romance novel. Now, don't get me wrong, there is definitely a romance in there. But we're introduced to the hero, Todd, as an activist who is willing to break laws and risk personal health for his causes. His choices to do so to protect a group of wild horses actually puts our heroine, Nora, in danger, both physical and vocational. I, personally, was immediately turned off. I wasn't even sure I wanted these two to have a happily ever after, much less spend a few hours of my time reading about it.

I trudged through and will admit the ending was sweet, but I never got over my initial distaste for Todd. This is a second chance trope story, so the two of them were connected and in love earlier in life. The choices Todd made back then that shaped him into the kind of man who would choose career over love... well, to be honest, I'm not sure the author did the work to prove to me he had changed. Sure, the book ends with Nora and Todd in love, but I still don't believe he's not walking just after the novel finishes.

As the Harlequin Superromance line goes, this one is fine. Just because I couldn't connect with it does not mean that you won't! Perhaps you are someone for whom the environment is a passion and you find all of Todd's behaviors and choices totally awesome and think I'm a monster for disagreeing. Fantastic - Romanceland is a big umbrella, full of folks with different opinions. This one just 100% did not work for me.

Book Summary

This wild stallion can't be tamed 

Todd Williams is still the naive idealist he was in college. Only now he's endangering lives—Nora Hoffman's to be exact. Nora hasn't seen Todd since he decided that saving the rain forest was more important than their relationship. Until the night she's nearly crushed by the stampede he causes. Now Todd is determined to make amends, for everything.

She may not agree with his methods, but even Nora can't deny the importance of his fight to save the wild horses. With the attraction between them still sizzling and the fate of the horses in the balance, Nora must decide just how much she's willing to risk.