Mood Reader in Scotland

General Fiction (Adult)/New Adult/Romance

Pub date: 7 May 2026

My rating: 3/5 ⭐️

Summary:

They were Hunt Ranch’s greatest love story. Until fate tore them apart.

Sierra Hunt never had any doubt that Benji Matthews was her person. As her brother’s best friend, he should have been off-limits, but Sierra knew he was the one as surely as she knew how to ride a horse. It didn’t matter that he came from nothing – to her, he was everything. And together, they were Hunt Ranch’s greatest love story: the rugged wrangler and the corporate cowgirl.

Until a devastating twist of fate shattered their lives entirely.

Now they can hardly stand to be in the same room. But when Benji is left with no other choice than to step up and take the reins at Hunt Ranch, avoiding each other becomes damn near impossible. Forced to work together, the two must confront everything they’ve lost. In doing so, they might just find their way back to each other, and the love they thought had disappeared forever …

Review:

Unfortunately this one did not land nearly as well as Night Rider did. They both handle very difficult topics, yes, but Night Rider offered at least SOME levity in form of other POVs. BDW was just sad and heavy for EVERYONE in the book. Literally every character mentioned was going through IT.
The split timelines were definitely the best part, giving us the Before and After. But the Before only highlighted how uncomfortable the age difference was. I was worried about it when it was mentioned in Night Rider and the way it was handled here didn’t really make it that much better.
And I’m sorry but Benji was such a wet blanket of a character. I understand that the author was trying to show just how kind he was, even (and especially) considering his upbringing but the man had NO fight in him whatsoever. Even Mav calls him out on that!
The yearning, chemistry and the spice were done well though so I’ll give them that.
I think this might just be my last venture with Sloane.