Colorado Mountain: The Gamble

Nina Sheridan is on a"Timeout" from her life... and her fiance and well... he is kind of... how should I put this...clueless.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

  She rents this nice A-Frame in the Colorado... but the owner Max is there... and he kind of kicks her out... in the middle of the night... a woman alone... in an other country... right that seams like a great idea.

Well, she drives away... and gets stuck in the snow...
She wakes up in a bed... in the A-Frame... sick out of her mind... in her underwear and a mans shirt.
Max nurses her back to health... but won't let her leave when she is back to health.
He called the local taxi service to tell them she had to rest, so she was not  allowed to leave his house

I realized why it was thin when I looked up taxi companies. There was only one. But one was enough.
“Thrifty’s,” a woman answered.
“Hello, my name is Ms. Sheridan and I need a taxi to town.”
There was a pause and then, “Nina?”
My body jolted and then I froze with the phone to my ear.
“Hello?” the voice called.
“Um… yes?”
“This Nina?”
“How do you know who I am?”
“Welp, Max called, said a lady with a fancy accent by the name of Nina would call, askin’ for a taxi. You’re a lady with a fancy accent and you’re askin’ for a taxi. Get some of those callin’ with British accents, not a lot. So I’m takin’ a wild guess. You Nina?”
I wondered if I could make it to Denver then to England before anyone discovered Max’s body. Then I wondered if anyone would bother with extradition if they figured out it was mewho did the deed. That was a lot of paperwork for one big, tall,domineering, jerky mountain man. Then I wondered, considering Max was so tall and big, how I’d kill him.
Then I decided, poison"

And Niles is Niles... she calls half a world away and he doesn't care.. well love maybe you should choose another man.


Max takes her out for dinner... where she meets "She bitch from Hell" also known as Shauna... Max's ex-lover... and lets just say it is ex for a reason.

1. She is a screaming BITCH... definitely deserve Caps Lock 
2. Ice queen of the year
3. Cheater!!!

The next morning the cops come by to get Mac's alibi for a murder of a man... that Max hated... like the rest of the town.

Later Max takes her to The Bluff... his favorite - kind of secret place and they meet Jimmy cotton a great photo artist.

They have a make out session... that ended with Max getting an important call.

And our sweet heroine uses the next two hours writing a e-mail... where she breaks the engagement... over e-mail my friends... really.

Nina wakes up the next... to Mindy being there. And here it goes she gets jealous... but won't admit it... acts like a bitch...
Well it turns out Mindy is like his sister... and she was raped like 3 weeks before... nice Nina, real smooth.


Well, Mindy, Becca and Nina go shopping, and to " The Dog" the local bar... and Mindy's ex show up and get aggressive and Max shows up and teaches him a lesson... beats the living crap out of him.

The next day the cops come by - yet again - this time to get him to talk to Bitsy... the dead guys wife.

Later on she meets Max's sister Kami... and she is just lovely... not.


Nina's hated father shows up being an extreme asshole, jackass, mean bastard, absent father... and he
came because Niles called him... cause why not call the man your fiance hates more than anything.

“You were engaged to him less than a week ago and you’re standing in your nightwear, a bruise on your cheek with a strange man in attendance.”

"Dad was just here.”

There was complete silence.

Then a screeched, “What?”

“Yes. He. Was. Just. Here. Spreading his good will and love all around Max’s entryway. It’s a wonder there aren’t cherubs flying around sprinkling rose petals and rainbows erupting through the windows, an aftermath of his delightful visit"

Seriously, you can just feel the love coming from the pages.


 They go get Bitsy's... to drive her to the police station... but first they go to her place... where Nina finds a picture of Max and his wife, Anna...

And here comes the part were she doubts his love and so on.
In that time Mindy tries to commit suicide, her mother and stepfather show up  she finds out that her ex-fiance is an ass in her fathers league.

The dead guy fucks Max over from the grave by giving him land... that he knows Max won't be able to pay for so he'll have to sell it... which he doesn't want to -  of course cause the place is beautiful and undisturbed

Ohh, and just a question...  how would you feel if the big "meet the parents" moment while you where in the middle of a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend... and not just the mother but also the bitch sister and her bitch friend, that is also one of your boyfriends ex-lovers... pretty pissed, right, well that happened for poor Nina, but she was... cool... more or less

"They’d heard.

Double wonderful. Darn it all to hell."

And later that morning Kami gets arrested and since Nina is a lawyer she becomes her defense...

That night the everybody goes to The dog for respective girls- and boys night out, Harry is there drinking his sorrows away and when Nina wants to do something nice and be with him he lays all his shit, Max's shit... and Anna

"You’re hot, you’re sweet, you’re even funny. But you should know, what you ain’t is Anna."

"So good, I’ll repeat myself because I figure you’re a good woman and you deserve it and you might be wrapped up in him now but one day you’ll learn you coulda done better. He loved her, Nina, she was his world. When a woman is a man’s world and he loses her, ain’t nothin’ gonna take the place of that and you gotta know that. This is somethin’ he wants, Max’ll do good by you but he’ll know and the whole town’ll know, you ain’t that to him, what Anna was, you never will be. So I’m thinkin’ ,bein’ a good guy and all, you should know that too."

 The next day Max finds out she knew about Anna, they get in a fight and then she leaves.

She goes to a bed and breakfast where she gets attacked by Mindy's ex wanting retribution, Max show up a couple of hours later and get her to a hospital.

They get home, press charges against Damon, they plan an nice dinner... and Nina gets kidnapped...



Stars:
3.85
It is really good and all, it's just... there happens to much, most of the time you forget that it is only two weeks... cause let me see in two weeks she goes to the police station 3 times, the hospital twice, gets kidnapped, there is a murder investigation, she breaks up her engagement, ... and oh right she falls in love... in only two weeks.

But it is really romantic, funny and all... she can just get really hysterical over small thing and also some big, and if he says something sweet she like blushes and all the girlishness.





What can you use this book for in real life:
Live life now, don't waste time making a decision you would have made anyway.

And don't try to be a " bigger man" in a car...