NEW RELEASE
Book Title: Road to a
Cowboy
Author and Publisher: Amy
Aislin
Cover Artist: Morningstar
Ashley Designs
Release Date: August 6, 2024
(audio coming early September)
Genre: Contemporary M/M romance
Tropes: Childhood friends to lovers, small town, cowboys
Themes: Family, friendship
Series: Windsor, Wyoming
2
Heat Rating: 3 flames
Length: 57 000
words
It’s book two in the Windsor,
Wyoming trilogy, but can be read as a standalone and does not end on a cliffhanger.
Buy Links
Book one in the trilogy, Home for a Cowboy,
will be on sale for $0.99 until Aug 15
Blurb
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 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?
Excerpt
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.
About the Author
Amy’s lived with her head in
the clouds since she first picked up a book as a child, and being fluent in two languages
means she’s read a lot of books! She first picked up a pen on a rainy day in fourth grade
when her class had to stay inside for recess. Tales of treasure hunts with her classmates
eventually morphed into love stories between men, and she’s been writing ever since. She
writes evenings and weekends—or whenever she isn’t at her full-time day job saving the
planet at Canada’s largest environmental non-profit.
An unapologetic introvert,
Amy reads too much and socializes too little, with no regrets. She loves connecting with
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