The sexy former movie actor is exactly the sort of person Owen tries to avoid – then suspicion strikes and he wonders why Johnny is there. He arrives late at night to be greeted by a familiar, although unexpected, face – that of Johnny Chase. He ends up getting there a little earlier than planned when he learns that Bo has had an accident. He’s at the end of the first year of study for his Master’s in documentary film studies and is looking forward to heading off to Big Star for the summer.
He finds dealing with his parents exhausting and tries to have as little to do with them as possible, preferring instead to spend his free time with Bo and Dylan – who are long standing family friends – at the ranch where he can just chill out and work with the horses and forget about the drama his parents thrive on. Owen Galeo is the son of a famous Hollywood couple whose tempestuous marriage, with its frequent break-ups and reconciliations, is constant fodder for the gossip columns. Over a sandwich and a brief conversation about their familial connection, Dylan offers Johnny the spare room. He doesn’t know what kind of welcome he’ll receive, or if he’ll be welcomed, at all, but when Dylan comes to the door, he greets Johnny as though a long-lost relative just turning up on the doorstep is nothing out of the ordinary. The same instinct has led him to keep the discovery of Dylan to himself – he hasn’t told either of his brothers yet – and he has no idea if Dylan will know who he is, but right at this moment, returning home to Nebraska isn’t an option, hence his using the last of his money on a bus ticket to Arroyo Grande. He hadn’t known of Dylan’s existence until he started dating his ex, when Dylan’s name came up in a background check Johnny doesn’t know the reason for the secrecy, but some instinct tells him it’s probably not a pleasant one. Johnny had enjoyed some success as an actor and stunt performer before he left the business to be with his politician boyfriend, but that was over a year ago and their recent breakup has left Johnny flat on his arse. I still haven’t had time to read books one and two in the series, but I managed to pick up enough here to be able to understand the backstory of Johnny’s role in those books, why he’s been estranged from his brother Robbie for over a year and why he’s both homeless and jobless when he arrives at Big Star Ranch at the beginning of As the Tallgrass Grows. At the end of Burning Season, the third published book in Rachel Ember’s Wild Ones series, the epilogue saw the arrival, on Bo and Dylan’s doorstep, of Dylan’s great-nephew, Johnny Chase.
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