Bourbon and Lies (Bourbon Boys 1), by Victoria Wilder | Free Audiobook
Bourbon and Lies (Bourbon Boys 1)Audiobook
A town with a rule and a stranger with a past
The Foxx brothers have a reputation in their Kentucky town, and the man telling this story has already paid for it once. That is partly why he left the police, why he keeps his head down running the family distillery, and why he wants a stranger nowhere near his house.
The stranger is Laney Young, and whatever she is running from has not stopped running. Her story about where she comes from does not hold up, and neither does the one about what she is doing in this town, which she tells with the confidence of somebody who has told it before. He notices all of it. His brothers, unfortunately, are charmed, and by the time he gets an opinion in she is already working in his building and sleeping in the guest house.
What follows is a small-town romance with a mystery underneath it, told in duet by Connor Crais and Samantha Brentmoor, and a nickname, cowboy, that he is going to have to live with.
The pieces are all here and they are assembled with confidence: a family with a reputation, a Kentucky bourbon business, a woman with a suitcase full of lies and a man who has already been through the worst version of this story once. Duet narration makes a real difference on a book like this, because the two voices argue with each other instead of just taking turns.
Laney is the engine of the book. She arrives with an attitude and a past, and the fact that she gives as good as she gets keeps the romance from becoming one long rescue. The Foxx brothers are clearly being set up as a series, and they earn their space without stealing the couple's story.
Connor Crais and Samantha Brentmoor read the ten hours and fifty-eight minutes between them, and the banter lands better in audio than it would on the page, which is usually the sign of a good duet production.
The criticism that shows up in reviews is about the heat between the two leads: there are readers who say the chemistry never quite convinces them and that the attraction tips into insta-lust too early, even when they like the plot. It is the standard complaint about the subgenre, and worth knowing if you need the slow burn to actually be slow.
For me the atmosphere carried it. If you like small-town romance with a mystery running underneath, My Forever Girl is on the site too.
Bourbon and Lies by Victoria Wilder opens the Bourbon Boys series in Fiasco, Kentucky, where the local rule is never to fall for a Foxx brother and the woman who just arrived in town is clearly running from something.
It runs 10 hrs and 58 mins, narrated in duet by Connor Crais and Samantha Brentmoor. You can start it on a free trial, cancellable whenever you like.
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