Rodeo Clown
Scott Danner is working cleanup at a Wyoming rodeo when a bullfighter in full clown paint walks into the pens and starts flirting with him.
His name is Colt. He’s cocky, reckless, good enough in the arena to make fifteen hundred pounds of angry bull look almost manageable, and completely aware of the effect he has on Scott.
Colt is easy to watch. Understanding him takes longer. He can work a crowd and make confidence look effortless. Then the crowd disappears, the paint starts coming off, and Scott catches glimpses of a man who doesn’t seem nearly as sure of himself as he wants everyone to believe.
The closer Scott gets, the more he starts wondering how much of Colt is the man and how much is the performance. Colt isn’t making that question easy to answer.
There are rodeos, bulls, dusty back pens, late nights in a silver trailer, and a ranch hand who has spent years learning how to read people only to meet one man who keeps changing the rules.
Colt isn’t just hard to figure out. Every now and then, Scott gets the feeling Colt’s looking over his shoulder too. Whatever Colt left behind, it hasn’t quite left him. Scott wants to know what’s under the paint.
The trouble is, Colt has spent a long time making sure nobody gets close enough to find out.
Rodeo Clown is an M/M Western romance about two men who are very good at hiding different parts of themselves, and what happens when one of them finally lets the other get too close.
Start where it all began. The Confessions of a DL Cowboy prequel novellas follow Scott Danner’s younger years — the moments that shaped the man he becomes.
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