Casa

The Wild Bunch #3

by Deirdre O'Dare

Stace, Spark, and Casa have been best buddies since their high school rodeo days. Now they work for an exclusive guest ranch in New Mexico that caters to gay men who need an escape from their high-stress, fast-lane lives. Rainbow Ranch has a reputation for providing the precise Wild West adventures each guest needs, and quenching their desires with the cowboys of the guest’s hottest fantasies.

Casa is worried when he sees Stace and Spark have found special partners in guests who’ve visited the ranch the past few months. He hates to be the only one left out, but he doesn’t think finding romance with a guest will work for him. He’s carried a secret torch for his boss Jason way too long to change now.

When Jason is hurt in a rodeo accident, Casa is the one who steps in to help and keep things going while the man recovers. A few small incidents lead Casa to wonder if maybe—in spite of all that says it is impossible—Jason might be a little bit interested in him also. Having dealt with prejudice because of his Latino ethnicity, however, Casa is afraid to let the other man know his feelings.

But will matters be taken out of his hands?

Stace’s new partner Jared bears a striking resemblance to Jason, which makes the three cowboys wonder—is there some connection and maybe even bad blood between the two men? In an effort to bring the two men face to face and discover the truth, the three cowboys engineer a barbeque, unsure whether the result will be terrific or terrible...

Genres: Contemporary

54 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Deirdre O'Dare, who also writes milder (roughly PG-13 rated) romance as Gwynn Morgan, has loved reading and writing since early childhood. Writing came naturally to Deirdre/Gwynn, who scribed her first simple verse at age eight. An avid reader, she devoured hundreds of books while growing up and later as an adult. Somewhere along the way she found romance and then romance with more explicit and detailed love scenes. “Ah ha,” said she, “I think I have found my niche!” In the last decade after leaving her "day job" as a civilian employee of the U. S. Army, she finally settled into romantic fiction writing as a second career. Deirdre has a growing number of shorts and novellas, all published by Amber Heat.

With Irish and Welsh ancestry on both sides of her family, Deirdre has always been enthralled by the history and customs of the Celtic peoples as they have come down to us. The Mother Goddess idea particularly resonates with her as well as the notion that physical expressions of love between consenting couples are both a divine gift and a sacred duty to honor the Mother. Deirdre admits her favorite heroes are cops, cowboys and Celts.