Detour
Five years after the death of his spouse, Austin MacIsaac is ready to find love
again—and he's got the perfect guy in mind: his sexy cowboy of a best friend,
Cal Anderson. If only he can convince Cal to detour out of the friend zone.
Road work ahead
Cal has been in love with Austin for longer than he can remember. The man has
been his rock through the ups and downs of messy family drama. But shaking up
their friendship for something more could lead them down a bumpy and unsafe
road.
Merge
Amid a backdrop of the Wyoming mountains and under a summer sky, can Austin and
Cal merge their lives into one and let the road to romance lead to happily ever
after?
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Austin’s heart did a sideways flip when Cal stopped next to him, his broad shoulders as intimidating as the Rockies to anyone who didn’t know him.
“Welcome back,” Cal said in a slow drawl that dragged along Austin’s senses. “How was Montana?”
“Beats me,” Austin said with a grin, keeping his eyes on the image on his camera’s display. “But Kootenai National Forest was gorgeous. You should see some of the shots I got. The night sky there is spectacular.”
“Doesn’t it look the same as everywhere else?”
Austin gave him the stink eye. “Don’t sass me, Calvin.”
Cal didn’t smile—his smiles were as rare as a sighting of Halley’s Comet—but his lips twitched.
“And no, it doesn’t look the same everywhere.”
“If you say so.” Cal looked off to the right. “What’s with the second camera?”
Austin jerked his gaze to where he’d set up an additional tripod several feet away. “That one’s recording so I can make a time-lapse video.”
Cal grunted.
His presence was nonintrusive as the sun sank and the stars began to emerge, yet Austin was always aware of him. He was as aware of Cal as he was of the location of the moon or the image in his camera’s viewfinder.
A few minutes later, shadows bathing the landscape, Austin began packing up his equipment under a sky quickly turning to dusk. The mountains had turned nearly invisible—when it got dark out here, it got dark—and Cal was almost a silhouette against the sky. Something about him standing silently with his hands shoved in the pockets of his jeans, gazing out into the distance, screamed of both contentment and loneliness, making Austin’s heart clench.
The first memory Austin had of Cal at Windsor Ranch was of him falling into a puddle near the corral on a rainy summer day when they’d been seven or eight. Now, as the foreman of that same ranch, Cal was basically running the place. The juxtaposition between kid-Cal, covered in rain and mud as he’d blinked up at Austin with big gray eyes as though wondering how he’d fallen into the puddle, and adult-Cal, tall, strong, coolly confident, and carrying the weight of the entire ranch on his shoulders, was sometimes jarring in that strange twist-of-fate kind of way.
Austin brought the camera up to his eyes, adjusted the settings, and snapped a photo, framing Cal in the right third of the shot while he gazed off to the left, making the viewer wonder what he was looking at. Austin would call it Cowboy Against the Night. He might even put it up for sale in his gallery instead of keeping it for himself.
Maybe.
Cal must’ve heard the shutter, because he turned with a raised eyebrow.
“Smile,” Austin said, aiming his camera at him again.
Cal did the exact opposite, making Austin laugh as he took the picture anyway.
Ruthie
– ☆☆☆☆
This is the second book in the series, and I would say that you don't
absolutely need to read book one, but it would give you some more context to
the ranch and to the fun that these two men have together as the very best of
friends.
Austin and Cal were at school together and both secretly crushed on each other –
but family situations and the times they grew up in were not that conducive to
admitting their attraction. Now years later, they are both single and probably
deeply in love with each other. Yet they daren't admit it to each other because
their friendship is too valuable to lose.
I really enjoyed being back in Windsor, and ranch life – and even more
enjoyable, learning more about the photographic skills that Austin uses to earn
his living. Delighted that they found their way to each other... and that Cal
finally sorted out his relationship with his mother.
I am already looking forward to seeing who gets their chance at love and
happiness in Wyoming!
Angie
– ☆☆☆
This author is apparently not a good fit for me. I read the first book in the
series and didn't like it. I had high hopes for this one; you can only go up,
right? This book was only marginally better. Austin and Cal were both great, I
just didn't connect with them. There was too much distraction from other things
and honestly it was slow burn... I mean really, really slow. When Austin and
Cal finally got it together, it just didn't have enough oomph for me. It was
just meh. I am sure others will enjoy this book and series, but it just wasn't
for me.
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