Release 14 October 2021

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Desert Dreams (Owatonna 6)

This story is best read as part of the series. It can't be read as a standalone.

GLBTQ, MM, Hockey Romance
Genre: Hockey Romance
Trope: Hockey, GLBTQ, Former Abuse, Shelter, Ranch
Released: 14 October 2021
Publisher: Love Lane Books
Series: Owatonna
Length: 28,000 words
Cover Design: Meredith Russell
All Buy Links can be found here: http://www.rjscott.co.uk/read-desertdreams
Available – Wide Release
ISBN – 9781785642975

Series Overview

The Owatonna U Series is a spin-off from the best-selling Harrisburg Railers Hockey Series. From the authors of bestselling MM Hockey Romance, RJ Scott & VL Locey.

http://www.rjscott.co.uk/read-desertdreams on ALL platforms

Desert Dreams

Authors: RJ Scott, V.L. Locey
Series: OWATONNA U (Hockey Romance), Book 6
Genre: Hockey
Tags: 2021 RJ VL, ku

When danger stalks their new home, it’s only their strength as a couple that keeps them safe.

Ryker misses Jacob every day he’s away. At the start of a new Raptors season with everything to play for, Jacob, the desert ranch, and their small menagerie of animals have become an oasis of peace in a turbulent world. He’s never ridden a horse, he’s never considered how much this place would mean to him, but suddenly he’s forming a connection with a mare called Tops and loving every moment of this new life. Balancing hockey with his love for Jacob, he feels that nothing can ever go wrong.

With his life finally on track, Jacob is pouring all of himself into the dream he shares with Ryker. Putting the final touches on Mountain Vista Ranch, a halfway home for troubled LGBTQ youth and their families, fills his heart with pride. When their first clients arrive, he finds himself drawn to the small family and their plight. Little does he or Ryker know that the darkness the newcomers have fled from is following them.

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Series Details

Owatonna – RJ Scott & V.L. Locey in the reading order

Changing Lines (Railers 1) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-ChangingLines
First Season (Railers 2) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-FirstSeason
Deep Edge (Railers 3) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-DeepEdge
Poke Check (Railers 4) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-PokeCheck
Last Defense (Railers 5) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-LastDefense
Goal Line (Railers 6) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-GoalLine
Ryker (Owatonna 1) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-Ryker
Neutral Zone (Railers 7) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-NeutralZone
Hat Trick (Railers 8) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-HatTrick
Scott (Owatonna 2) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-Scott
Save the Date (Railers 9) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-SaveDate
Benoit (Owatonna 3) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-Benoit
Coast to Coast (Raptors 1) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-Coast2Coast
Across the Pond (Raptors 2) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-AcrossThePond
Christmas Lights (Owatonna 4) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-ChristmasLights
Shadow and Light (Raptors 3) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-ShadowLight
Sugar and Ice (Raptors 4) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-SugarIce
School and Rock (Raptors 5) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-SchoolRock
Baby Makes Three (Railers 10) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-BabyMakesThree
Valentine's Hearts (Owatonna 5) – http://rjscott.co.uk/read-valentine
Lost in Boston (Free prequel novella) (Boston Rebels 0) – http://rjscott.co.uk/LIB_Master
Top Shelf (Boston Rebels 1) – http://rjscott.co.uk/read-topshelf
Back Check (Boston Rebels 2) – http://rjscott.co.uk/read-backcheck
Desert Dreams (Owatonna 6) – http://rjscott.co.uk/read-desertdreams – pre-order
Snowed (Boston Rebels 3) – (December 2021) sign up for a release reminder – http://www.rjscott.co.uk/read-snowed

Ryker (Owatonna 1) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-Ryker
Scott (Owatonna 2) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-Scott
Benoit (Owatonna 3) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-Benoit
Christmas Lights (Owatonna 4) – http://rjscott.co.uk/Read-ChristmasLights
Valentine's Hearts (Owatonna 5) – http://rjscott.co.uk/read-valentine
Desert Dreams (Owatonna 6) – http://rjscott.co.uk/read-desertdreams

The Authors

RJ Scott

Writing love stories with a happy ever after – cowboys, heroes, family, hockey, single dads, bodyguards

USA Today bestselling author RJ Scott has written over one hundred romance books. Emotional stories of complicated characters, cowboys, single dads, hockey players, millionaires, princes, bodyguards, Navy SEALs, soldiers, doctors, paramedics, firefighters, cops, and the men who get mixed up in their lives, always with a happy ever after.

She lives just outside London and spends every waking minute she isn’t with family either reading or writing. The last time she had a week’s break from writing, she didn’t like it one little bit, and she has yet to meet a box of chocolates she couldn’t defeat.

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VL LOCEY

V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee.
(Not necessarily in that order.)

She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a flock of assorted domestic fowl, and two Jersey steers.

When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in hand.

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Excerpts

Excerpt 1

“This is Max.” Jacob held the phone out to me. “He looks like a happy kid,” Jacob murmured.

I glanced at my husband to see the light in his eyes. One day he might want kids—surrogacy, adoption, somehow, we’d be extending our family—and how could we do that if I was traded up to Montreal or Vancouver and he was here in Arizona?

“He’s the best.” Jack beamed. “All four of the kids ride, and because of Max we have a horse therapy program for children at the D.”

Of course, they did, because Jack clearly had a grip on his life and could work magic, and managed to have his whole world on an even keel.

“We’re uncles,” Jacob said proudly. “Show Jack a photo.” He looked at me pointedly.

I could see the tension bracketing his eyes. I was fucking up, and he’d been planning for this visit for weeks. After all, it had been Jack’s Legacy Ranch that had inspired Jacob.

“Sorry, yeah.” I scrolled to a picture of little Charlotte on my cell, my heart swelling with love at seeing her cheeky smile, and showing Jack who made all the right noises, and called her hella cute. She was hella cute, and in that particular photo, she was in a tiny Raptors shirt that I’d sent to Dad and Ten.

“I’m actually kind of her big brother, Jacob’s like an uncle, but biologically—it’s complicated.”

“Life always is.” Jack laughed. “And that’s your team?” he asked, smiling at me, waiting for me to give the best answer I could think of.

“Yeah, the Arizona Raptors, in Arizona.” Duh. The fuck, Ryker?

“I never get that.” Jack wrinkled his nose. “I get ice in Canada, that’s perfectly okay, I mean, it’s cold. But we have a team in Dallas, you know them, yeah?”

“There are only thirty-two teams, so we play them.” Jeez, way to sound condescending.

Jack shook his head. “Ice. In Dallas. Makes as much sense as ice in Arizona.”

Excerpt 2

Why had I ever entered research when my soul resided with the animals and land of a farm? Or a ranch, as they were called out west.

“Why have I done so many stupid things?” I asked Penelope.

“Because you’re only human,” a woman replied from behind me. I smiled at Doctor Morgan’s smooth tones, then turned to the slim Black woman in a wild caftan and purple Chucks. “Oh, what a pretty horse.” She stepped up beside me. “Is she yours?”

“Technically they all are,” I replied. “Every darn thing on these fifty acres is mine, well, mine and Ryker’s.” I glanced at the woman who had been so instrumental in helping me in my recovery, as well as guiding Ryker and me through couple’s therapy. Sexual assault was not something that simply faded away. It still haunted me a year later. It’d probably be with me for life. “We have a mortgage. It’s huge. I have nightmares about being chased down and sat on by our debt.”

Dr. Morgan laughed softly. “Welcome to being a grown-up.”

“I miss my blanket fort.”

“Don’t we all? I met Mr. Campbell-Hayes as he was leaving for the airport. He seems to be quite impressed with what you’re doing here.”

I blushed as I scratched Penelope’s nose. “It’s not that much.”

“It is and you know it. Not many people would dedicate their lives to helping queer kids and families who’ve been abused. Speaking of which, I’ll be here two days a week for starters, then we’ll have to juggle my schedule with the cases that arrive. If needed, I can call in an associate or two.”