While battling to save his family’s ranch Baker finds himself falling for a man as unrestrained as the Oklahoma winds.
For as long as he can recall, Baker Bastian has been the backbone of Bastian Acres Ranch. He’s carried a heavy load trying his best to keep his family legacy from being swallowed up by corporate farming while battling a fondness for the bottle, a messy divorce, and a grandmother that’s set on becoming the next Annie Oakley if she could just get a gun that shoots straight. It’s not been an easy road. Now with his worthless philandering father’s death the deed to the ranch is to be split four ways with three stepbrothers he never wanted to get to know better.
As the ranch is tossed into chaos, Baker is driven to open the gates to strangers, and not just his brothers and their travelling companions. In order to turn a buck the once proud owner of prime cattle is reduced to calling his farming legacy a guest ranch. The first client to show up is Hanley Welsh, a world renowned wildlife photographer. Baker should be too busy to notice how rugged Hanley is, or how his eyes crinkle with his easy smile, or how well his jeans fit. But notice he does. Will Baker’s lonely existence end with the arrival of a man who carries the song of the indigo bunting in his heart?
Baker (Bastian Brothers #1) is a first in series grumpy/sunshine M/M contemporary western gay romance with a lonesome cowboy, a chipper wildlife photographer, unwanted family arrivals, a not-so-straight shooting octogenarian, and a picture perfect happy ending.
Content warning: This story has references to past substance abuse.
