This review posted on Guilty Pleasures 
 3.5 Stars 
 Scrap Metal by Harper Fox is a contemporary romance between two young men thrown together by unusual circumstances on a sheep farm on a western isle off of Scotland. On a cold winter's night Nichol Seacliff hears a noise in the barn and goes to check it out. What he finds is a young man hiding out. Cameron was running from a gang and thought to hide here far away from the mainland. Instead of turning him in, Nichol offers him a blanket and a place to stay. Nichol has been back on his grandfather's farm for a year now after the death of his mother and brother, to help out and keep the sheep farm running. He left the university where he was studying linguistics and now he's back on the farm where he is raised not sure where what direction his life is heading. Nichol is not a farmer like his brother use to be and his grandfather Harry lets him know at every turn. Why does he stick with it? God only knows, but when Cameron starts to help around the farm, Nichol feels things again that he thought were long dormant. Cam also helps the farm back on its feet monetarily and Nichol is starting to fall in love with him. Before you know it, Cam's past catches up to him. What had him on the run? 
 This story isn't your typical romance novel with the typical hero. It is a romance but very light on the romance and more story. There is an attraction between the two main characters that slowly grows, and a conflict to be resolved by the end of the story and definite character development. Scrap Metal is well written with lovely phrases and descriptive words for the people and the land. It was slow in the beginning but steadily picked up and before too long I was totally enthralled with Nichol and Cam and all the secondary characters. Harry, Nichol's grandfather, was a curmudgeon but turned out to be more than what you expected from a man set in his ways, and surprised me by his actions in the end. I felt that the characters were quite realistic and Ms. Fox brought out true feelings for each of the characters. I especially liked the ending because it didn't have the big sweeping ending but a nice comfortableness for both Nichol and Cam. I will be looking out for more of her stories and definitely a look at her back-list.