Last Chance Love (Isaiah Ranch) Paperback – 10 Jun. 2024

Excellent reunion between Reed and Leon after years apart. Glad Reed and Leon managed to clear Reed's name and they had a happy ever after ending

This is the final book in the Isaiah Ranch series and focuses on Reed and Leon. They suffer from a lot of ribbing from the fellow inmates at the ranch who think they’re boyfriends - what they don’t know is that Reed and Leon have known each other since they were six and had been boyfriends until Leon disappeared from Reed’s life when they were 19. They reunited again at the Ranch two years ago and are slowly rebuilding their friendship. This is a slow build story that has you hoping they can overcome their problems from the past and build a ‘together’ future. The course of true love never goes smoothly though. Really loved this book and I think it’s the best of the series.“Our lives had been given a second chance to get back on track and we were taking full advantage of it.”

This is the final book in the Isaiah range series and wow what a great read.Please make sure to read Pushing Riley to the Max and Close Quarters to get the best from this book.And I have throughly enjoyed this series, and his last book was just amazing.In this one we learn about Reed and Leon, who knew each other before, been lovers before and now they both end up at Isaías Ranch to work hard to get their lives together and be able to go back to society.This book, it is a slow burn, but the pace of the book just keeps your interest going. Of course there is drama within this book. But the question is will these two finally come back together as a couple.I don’t really like slow burns, but this one really held my interest. For two years, Reed and Leon had managed to have minimal interest in one another. When Mona interferes, for good cause, they find themselves working together. They quickly learn that they don’t know much about each other now so they start to get to know each other again. It is obvious that the attraction between them is still there. This is their second chance, and of course the drama begins Reed is accused of something he didn’t do. Leon stands by his man and tries to find out who would do this to him. A really great read.I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Isaiah Ranch. You and I may not have 'been' there in the literal sense but this has been my third visit, well fourth if you count the fact that I both read and listened to the audiobook for the first book ~ Pushing Riley to the Max. I am also hoping books 2 and 3 become audio so I can double up on them all. That is a brief summary of my love affair with the Ranch.As someone who has never committed a criminal act in her life I don't think it likely I would ever be anywhere like Isaiah Ranch but it still sounds like a place I could be comfortable in. Why? It's a big, big Texan Ranch, its filled with convicts who are being given a chance and it's a place of hard work, toil. But it is also a place with so much heart. It is prepared to take people on, no matter what they did, if they appear to be the type of people who can be helped and the men we meet, they are troubled, yes that probably goes without saying, but they are not irredeemable. In fact the scariest person on the Ranch is Mona, the second in command and when almost all the men are scared of her we know she is a fierce woman!So, I fell in love with the Ranch and its men for their openness, their honest humanity and their willingness to stand up for one another. Then there are the romances they share. They are hot but this is not erotica. There are some sex scenes but it is what you read between the lines, what you see in their interactions and hear in their words that makes it romantically hot. It is something about the way that Romeo Alexander writes, with so much conviction and honesty that takes you in, immediately, and keeps you there. And I honestly think a great deal of research has gone into the creation of the world that Isaiah Ranch is. The timelines of each story overlap and yet each can be read as a standalone. They are even better when read in order but that type of writing takes great skill - to remember where each story is in the frand scheme so they overlap without revealing too much.And so, we come to 'Last Chance Love.' This is Reed and Leon's story. Reed and Leon have been characters we have met quite often since the first book. Reed works in the Ranch Clinic and Leon is a mentor, having both risen up the tier's to the places they are now. Until now though, although we have met them and seen their interactions with one another and with others on the Ranch we haven't had a chance to truly get to know them and what we get is fascinating, eye opening and quite simply beautiful. They are men who first met as 6 year old boys, who became best friends, then boyfriends but who drifted apart at 18. They kept in touch for a short while when Reed went to medical school but then Leon let that drop, for reasons that are shared over the course of the story. Along with their personal backgrounds, the reasons they found themselves on the Ranch and the reasons behind their tentative interactions...until now.Leon has been avoiding, as best he can, Reed. For two years now he has been trying to avoid the man whose heart he knows he broke. At least that is what he thinks he knows. Leon is introspective and sometimes that doesn't work out well but Reed has always been able to understand him, to read him and time hasn't dimmed that skill. So when fate, or is it Mona, decides it is time to bring them back together, it, or she, does. Not without doubts from Leon and hesitancy from Reed the two begin having to work alongside one another. It is not their past that encourages Mona to bring them together but something she wants to get to the bottom of on the Ranch and she is sure she knows how to. Leon and Reed realise they have been given a second chance they embrace it and when a false allegation threatens everything Leon knows he is going to move heaven and earth to keep his man.An outstanding story, deeply romantic, deeply thoughtful, completely engrossing. I can't wait to see if there will be more, unlike some of its men, I don't think I want to leave Isaiah Ranch!

Romeo has done it again. His final book in the Isaiah Ranch series if full of romance and fire between the two main characters. The story line is great with just the right amount of heat between the ex lovers.

Alexander is gifted in his ability to craft deep characters, flawed and complex. Each volume provides complex men who learn to embrace possibilities despite their backgrounds, psychological and emotional challenges, and the ever present manipulative Mona. So intense that at times I had to put each of them down, walk away and let my mind settle knowing I had to come to terms with the anxiety created by the clever writing of an amazing author before I could get to the HEA. Really well done.

Love this book. Love the series. Romeo is a great student of the human heart, and so talented at portraying the joy of love and living in the face of the disasters life throws one’s way.

If fully honest, a little too much backstory, hence the four stars instead of five.It felt a little too long, but at the same, it felt like the author really wants us to know these characters.From Leon and Reed's first introduction in the first Isaiah Ranch novel I pictured them a little older, mid to late thirties, not the 33 they proclaim in this book. So it's like they de-aged. Anyhow, it was a good read. The spicy scenes felt true to how past lives reconnect when they do reconnect; familiarity and surprise, comfort and excitement from being able to relive what was lost. I actually wanted more spice scenes, especially of the lap sitting varietySome very brief BTW's from other series by the author had me going back and searching to see if there was a cross reference there, a good hook.

Leon and Reed loved one another as teens then life got in the way and they spent years before seeing one another again. When they meet again it at the ranch where they did not expect the other to be there. Its both rocky and sweet to watch their progress.