Blaze

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Blaze</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Whoever says money can solve all your problems is a damn liar. It only creates unnecessary headaches and does nothing to erase bitter memories.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Deep down I'm still the same guy I've always been. No matter how many zeros are in my bank account. No matter how far I run or how much richer I become. Where I came from will never change.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm tired of pretending. It's why I've come back to my hometown. To the simple life to clearing my mind and finding the balance that's always just out of reach.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No suits no city living no cheats and liars and </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>definitely</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> no complications.</span></p><p><br></p><p>But the funny thing is there's a situation I wasn't prepared for. The ranch hand on my best friend's farm with a shy smile and talented hands. River is easygoing confident and carefree my total opposite.</p><p><br></p><p>Maybe an unexpected complication is exactly what I need to make things easy again.</p><p>Maybe finding my way back to who I truly am is easier if I'm not alone.</p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>River</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I don't need much to be happy.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I have my job at Broken Horn Ranch my custom furniture building on the side and a standing date to dinner with my dad every Friday night.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Life doesn't need excitement or fancy adventures to be fulfilling. Things are completely good just the way they are. There's no sense toppling my perfectly balanced apple cart.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I wasn't expecting the tall dark and handsome man who arrived at the ranch on horseback and sent my comfortable ordinary world spinning.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Blaze is the boss's best friend and a part owner of the ranch. His brilliant smile masks his hidden troubles and if I had a few pennies to spare for his thoughts I'd spend every last one.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maybe I don't have everything I need after all.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maybe I need </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>him</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Blaze is the second book in The Broken Ranch series and can be read as a standalone. Expect to find two men in their forties remembering what it's like to be kids again while falling in love a new hobby making spoons an abundance of romantic gestures and a super swoony sleigh ride.</em></p>