Stick & Ball
About
Some deals you live by. Some men you let go. One morning changes everything.
At fifteen, Mason Caldwell learned exactly what he was worth: one packed duffel bag and a door held open. Six months of empty streets later, an old rancher catches him stealing food, buys the groceries, feeds him supper, and offers the only deal he ever makes.
There's a stallion out there needs riding. Ride him, you stay.
Nobody had ever put their cards face up in front of Mason before. Two weeks of dirt, bruises, and one wild chestnut stallion later, a boy who's never been wanted anywhere finds the only safe place he's ever known — and a gift with horses that will one day carry him further than any of them can imagine.
Seventeen years on, Mason is the best hand Diamond Back has ever seen, the ranch is drowning in debt it doesn't discuss, and a traveling farrier with a low laugh and leaving built into his job rolls through on a six-week circuit. What happens between them is easy, honest, and hot enough to rattle a cheap motel print off its screws. It was never going to last. Mason has never once asked anyone to stay.
Then, on an ordinary Thursday morning, a stranger in a suit appears at the fence. He's been watching Mason ride for twenty minutes. And he knows his name.
Stick & Ball is a free prequel novella to the Windward Cup Dynasty — the story of who Mason was before Julian, before the polo world came for him, and before the deal that changed his life came due. Steamy M/M romance, 18+, exclusive to eliaskeane.com.
Get it free — and find out what the man at the fence wants in Line of the Ball, Book One of the Windward Cup Dynasty.