Long Winter (Wild Ones #1)
Rachel Ember
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
4.05
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 11 ratings · 284 pages · Published: 19 Feb 2021

It’s been a long, cold winter at Riverside Ranch, where Robbie has lived alone since his brothers moved away. Alone, that is, except for his three devious cats, four saddle horses, and the forty-eight mustangs that roam the ranch.
Robbie is preparing for yet another snowfall when he gets the last call he expected—a plea to pick up Lance Taylor from the county jail.
Lance wasn’t just his little brother’s best friend, he was a part of the family. Then, one night, after Lance asked Robbie for something Robbie couldn’t give, he ran away and never came back.
Lance was sixteen and heartbroken when he left his middle-of-nowhere hometown. Six years later, he’s at rock bottom with nowhere else to go, and no one to turn to but Robbie, the man Lance has been inconveniently in love with for most of his life.
When Robbie offers Lance a place to stay, Lance expects a guest bedroom and awkward silences. Instead, he finds himself sharing Robbie’s one-room hayloft apartment and its single bed, while realizing that the old flame he carries for Robbie might not be so hopeless, after all.
Long Winter is the first book in the Wild Ones series and has a happy-for-now ending. Robbie and Lance’s story continues in Signs of Spring.
Tagged as:
- western 4
- contemporary 4
- gay romance 4
- age gap 4
- cowboy hero 4
- friends to lovers 4
- queer romance 3
- sibling's best friend 3
- bisexuality 2
- caretaking 2
- forced proximity 2
- second chances 2
- sweet/gentle hero 2
- male pov 2
- dual pov 2
- third person pov 2
- queer awakening 1
- childfree 1
- angst 1
- anal sex 1
- hurt/comfort 1
- found family 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past abuse 2
- mental trauma 2
- third party abuse 1
- geography
- north america 1
- usa 1
- nebraska 1
- illinois 1
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The 'Wild Ones' series
29 ratings 4.16 ·
length-medium · queer · m-m · cowboys · contemporary · western · illinois · hurt-comfort · age difference · usa · dual-pov · anal sex · angst · siblings-bff · historical · north-america · nebraska · third-person-pov · forced proximity · male-pov
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