Sometimes a man’s biggest blunder can become his greatest triumph.
Orphaned at fourteen, Crow Poulin survives alone in the White Mountains of Arizona, living by the hunting and trapping skills his father taught him. Then, on a bitter morning, Crow finds a dying outlaw while out checking traps—Jack Wittington, a wanted man. Crow should leave him to his fate, but instead he carries Jack home, nurses him back from the brink, and unknowingly saves more than the outlaw’s life. Grateful for the debt he can never repay, Jack offers Crow something the lonely boy had lost: a family. Starved for companionship and desperate for a father’s love, Crow follows him out of the mountains and into a world that will change his life forever.
Six years later, Crow is a trusted member of the Wittington Gang—but his father’s morals still war with the outlaw life. When a train robbery goes disastrously wrong, Crow finds himself responsible for Spencer Haughton, the sickly, refined son of a wealthy cattle and railroad tycoon, whom the gang kidnaps for ransom. Forced to hide Spencer until the ransom can be collected, Crow discovers a man unlike anyone he has ever known: delicate, educated, gentle, and gifted with a voice as beautiful as birdsong. As their unlikely friendship deepens into something neither man expected, Crow begins to question everything he thought he wanted—and everything he has become. But with the law closing in and their worlds impossibly far apart, can an outlaw and a rich man’s son find the love they’ve both been searching for?
The Ballad of Crow and Sparrow is an MM historical western romance featuring a rugged mountain man turned unlikely outlaw, a refined and delicate rich man, forced proximity, opposites attract, a daring train robbery, and a slow-burn love that proves even the wildest hearts can find their way home.
