Will you go with me? Yes, I will follow you to the ends of the earth.
Cal
Cal still isn’t sure whether he got himself arrested on purpose just to get away from Preston, his horrible fiance. Or whether it had been an honest coding mistake that got him hauled away in handcuffs.
After over a year in jail, he’s handshy and touch-starved and afraid. Not of doing his parole in the wilds of Wyoming, but that Preston will force him back to Denver.
In the valley, when Cal is assigned to Zeke Malloy’s team, his luck starts to change because Zeke is patient and kind, both with the horses and with Cal.
Cal knows better than to trust anyone, and that he needs to get the hell out of Preston’s reach before it’s too late.
But even though he’s aware of the risks, Cal’s crush on Zeke starts with a single word of kindness. A warm touch. And the smile in those green eyes.
Will he ever learn? No, he probably won’t. But maybe, in this case, that’s a good thing.
Zeke
When Zeke was engaged to Betty Lou, his future was pretty much established. Retire from bronc riding, become a horse trainer, and settle down to have lots of cherry cheeked babies.
But after a horse fell on him and busted his thigh, Zeke’s bronc riding days are over. Betty Lou only wants a buckle-wearing man, not a broken one, and left him.
Zeke is lonely and at loose ends, and shouldn’t he be more upset about Betty Lou leaving him?
He’s also confused because he can’t stop thinking about the time Galen Parnell asked him out. Plus, Galen had flirted with him, as if there was something about Zeke that Galen knew–something Zeke couldn’t see for himself.
When Zeke starts to work with Cal Tamalin, the only parolee on his team, he begins to think maybe Galen had been on to something.
Getting close to Cal can only spell disaster, and surely Zeke’s had enough of those, right?
He shouldn’t take the risk, but doesn’t think his heart can resist the biggest blue eyes Zeke has ever seen.
The Cowboy and the Hacker is a story of forbidden love with hurt/comfort, bi-awakening, mutual rescue, only one tent, moccasins, a bear, maybe two bears, two men and three ponies on a long, lonesome ride, and of course an HEA. It is book 5 in the Farthingdale Valley series but can be read as a standalone.
