MIDNIGHT THUNDER – Vicki Lewis Thompson
Thunder Mountain Brotherhood , Book 1
Harlequin Blaze #847
ISBN: 978-0-373-79851-3
June 2015
Contemporary Series Romance

Thunder Mountain Ranch, Wyoming – Present Day

Cowboy Cade Gallagher had just quit his job as a ranch hand in Colorado when he gets a call from his long ago ex-girlfriend, Lexi Simmons, that his beloved foster mother is in the hospital in Sheridan, Wyoming. He races there, knowing he will come face to face with Lexi again, the woman he once loved but whom he couldn't promise marriage.  Once back at Thunder Mountain Ranch after checking on Rosie, his foster mother, and her husband, Cade decides to stick around for a while to make sure she's okay. With Cade and Lexi alone, the sexual heat rises once again, and she makes it clear she's ready for some hot and sweaty sex to happen between them. Is Cade playing with fire by getting involved with Lexi?

While Lexi tells herself that she's gotten over Cade, he still makes her heart beat fast and she figures getting to the crux of the problem is quicker than evading it. That means making it clear to him she's open to sex between them with no strings attached. But despite her avowal that she won't fall for Cade again, she's soon falling for him again. Cade will be on the road once Rosie is better, so is Lexi asking for trouble by letting Cade into her bed, only to see him walk away again?

The sex is hot, and each time it gets better for Cade and Lexi in MIDNIGHT THUNDER. They were hot and heavy during high school, and she thought they were headed for the altar until he let her know he had no plans to marry her, and they broke up. Soon after, Cade hit the road, working one ranch job after another, but never found a woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with because it always came back to his first love, Lexi. As a child who landed in foster care, he feels like he's damaged goods and not good enough for any woman. Can Lexi convince him that he's worthy of her…and can he stay at Thunder Mountain Ranch?

From the moment she spotted Cade when they were teenagers, Lexi was hooked on him. It didn't take long for sex to be part of their relationship, and she has fond memories of their couplings in the bed of his truck. He still has that same truck, so it's bit of a fond homecoming as they try out the truck bed once more. In MIDNIGHT THUNDER, while they're all worried about Rosie's health, Cade and Lexi still find time to get “reacquainted.” But when it comes time to leave, will Cade have second thoughts? What about the plans to help Rosie and her husband hang onto the ranch after Cade learns it's about to be foreclosed?

MIDNIGHT THUNDER is the first book in Vicki Lewis Thompson's Thunder Mountain Brotherhood series about a trio of foster brothers who vowed to be brothers despite there not being any actual blood relationship among them. In this tale we get to meet the other two brothers and their backgrounds, with a hint of the ladies who will soon have them groveling in their own books.

Grab an icy cold drink because you're going to need this to read MIDNIGHT THUNDER. Sex between Cade and Lexi just may be better this time around. Will it lead to a happily-ever-after this time? Find out in this sizzling tale that I highly recommend.

Patti Fischer