Long Winter

Its 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 wasnt just his little brothers best friend he was a part of the family. Then one night after Lance asked Robbie for something Robbie couldnt give he ran away and never came back. Lance was sixteen and heartbroken when he left his middle-of-nowhere hometown. Six years later hes 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 Robbies 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 Lances story continues in Signs of Spring.