Book Review: Her Montana Master by Maren Smith

Stateside Doms Book 1

He’s known her since she was two…

Abandoned by her father, ignored by her mother, Clover Harris has always fantasized about her brother’s best friend. He’s the only person in her life who’s always been there. The only problem: he’s never shown any interest in her as anything more than a little sister. Until the day she loses everything. Cast out of her home, with nothing and nowhere to go, Clover does what she always has. She runs… straight to Madden, only this time, he’s all done playing big brother.

He’s loved her since she was twelve…

A dominant man, Madden Briggs knows a submissive when he sees one, and in Clover he sees everything he’s ever wanted, but she’s kept him strictly in the like-a-brother zone for more than twenty years. That all comes to an end the day she shows up at his door. She wants a job; he hires her. She needs money; he’ll let her earn it. She dreams about a car so she can leave this town forever; he’ll even teach her how to drive. But it’s the lost and scared submissive inside her that he aches to touch, and her willingness to obey becomes his addiction.

And in the end, she’s still going to leave… unless Her Montana Master can somehow change her mind.

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My Review:

Madden and Clover have been crushing on one another for just about as long as they’ve known each other. But neither one believed the other was interested. A terrible situation lands Clover in Madden’s care, and suddenly the forbidden seems possible. There is so much emotion in this book; the good, the bad, and the ugly. I was really able to connect with Clover. I’ve experienced a sunburn nearly that bad, and the scenes of her recovery are very accurate and well-written. I could also relate to her feelings of abandonment – both the ones that were fully grounded in facts and the ones that weren’t as justified. Madden effectively straddles the line between caring protective figure and straight-up dominant personality to be exactly the partner that Clover needs. I’m kind of hoping that we get to see her brother meet his match in a future book. I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book through Booksprout.