Ranch Dad: Older Man First-Time Love

By Q. Zayne

It's bad, but she wants him anyway. Because he makes her burn, she might risk everything.
Heat alert! So forbidden, if she lets him touch her—people would never forgive her.

The rancher next door is smoldering hot. Sloane and her best friend can’t stop checking him out. Whoa, cowboy.
But he used to be married to the one person Sloane should never compete with for a man.
And there’s another guy in his household who wants her bad.

My feelings about Mr. Callahan confuse and excite me.
He's a buff billionaire, divorced, but off-limits. I'm 19, still holding my V-card.
Maybe if he wasn’t so muscular and appreciative—and if he didn’t flirt with me—I could stop thinking about him.
But the first time we touch, I start to burn.

Please Note: This standalone New Adult Romance novella is rated Mature 18+. There’s no cliffhanger and no cheating.
If you don’t like books about a close mature man with an untouched college student, or you don’t like novellas, this is not the book for you. Heroine peril, age-gap relationship with a forbidden man, and brief dark material may be disturbing for some readers.Those of you who want come for a ride off-limits, let’s get hot!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Q. Zayne
• Release date: Jan 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463388839

Q. Zayne

Q. Zayne often appears on top 100 author lists. Q. minored in Classical Archaeology and has an MFA in Creative Writing from SFSU. After teaching at the university, working as an editor, and freelancing, the author embarked on a wild digital publishing adventure. Thanks to fabulous readers, super promoters, and unflagging supporters, Q. writes fiction for a living from the Yucatan, Central America, and the California coast.Check out the Quin Zayne books for dirty, high-heat romance, and Q. Zayne for Erotica and naughty fairy tales.

Book preview

Teaser

I caught sight of horses, fine horses, in a new corral partly hidden by the sprawling mansion. Someone was making the place a ranch again.

I pulled off my clothes without closing the curtains. What the hell if I gave some guy a thrill. I dug through my suitcase for my favorite bikini, a tiny adjustable one great for tanning. I slipped it on, adjusted its sea-green bits for minimum coverage and grabbed a towel.

I ran down the stairs—right into Mr. Callahan.

I couldn’t talk, just stood there stunned from the impact with solid muscle. How had I not noticed Mom’s husband number three was a solid-assed hunk?

My face burned and I backed against the wall.

I’m so sorry. He took a good look at me. A good, long look. Sloane? It’s you, Sloane. He shook his head, acting as surprised as I was at the two of us running into each other, literally, at my friend’s house.

What are you doing here? I guessed that came out bratty, but he threw me totally off guard, and I was still in shock over how good his body felt, how buff and sexy. Damn.

Ranch Dad

Ranch Dad

Older Man First Time Love

by Q. Zayne

for A.

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Electronic book publication: January 2020

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual businesses, entities, or persons living or dead is purely coincidental. All people and incidents are products of the author’s imagination. This work is for mature readers 18+.

Secret Sunshine

Dear readers,

Please read the book description to decide if this book is for you. Ranch Dad is a short, hot read. It’s not a traditional slow-build romance, and it’s a novella, not a novel. This book is for readers who enjoy older-man love. If you don’t like short books that feature high-heat scenes, spare yourself. I write to entertain, not to upset people.

So forbidden, if anything happened—people would never forgive her.

The rancher next door is smoldering hot. Sloane and her best friend can’t stop checking him out. But he used to be married to the one person Sloane should never compete with for a man.

And there’s another guy in his household who wants her bad.

My feelings about Mr. Callahan confused and excited me.

He was a buff billionaire, divorced, but off-limits. I was 19, still holding my V-card.

Maybe if I wasn’t so mad at Jenny, and he wasn’t so muscular and appreciative—and if he didn’t flirt with me—I could stop thinking about him.

From the first time we touched, I started to burn.

Please Note: This standalone New Adult novella is rated Mature 18+. There’s no cliffhanger and no cheating.

If I’d grown up with a father, I might not have thought of Mr. Callahan in dirty ways. But I didn’t, and I did.

It was messed up, I knew that. But there were extenuating circumstances. After all, I didn’t meet him until last year at my high school graduation.

Turned out he was the absentee-father type, too. First time I’d ever seen him on campus. He showed up for his son, a sullen guy named Cory who had hair falling over his face, a tarantula tattoo on his neck, and feral eyes.

Mom started spending weekends with Mr. Callahan, and they ran off to Nevada and got married. Maybe one of those drive-through places. I didn’t ask. When your mom elopes, well, the less said, the better. That’s one of her phrases, and it fit.

I think it was an age thing. Time of life and all that. I heard her and her girlfriends moaning about the lack of eligible men. They’d all been through two or three husbands, so I couldn’t see the attraction in collecting the next one. Maybe slightly less creepy than the lady down the block who collects baby dolls, but not by much.

But there it was, they were married. It lasted maybe six months.

Likely there are drive-through divorce things now, too. I didn’t care.

Where things got interesting was when she decided to take off to a spa for a month and suggested I stay with Linda. I’m 19, I don’t need anyone to baby sit me. But I got along with Linda alright, and they had horses and a swimming pool.

Sure, I could go for that. I didn’t start college until September, might as well take a vacation in the country.

I saw Mom off. We air kissed, and I drove out to Linda’s. Another perk of Mom taking off, I got to borrow her car.

Linda bounced down the steps of their big ranch house with her pony tail swinging. She wore cut-offs and sneakers with a pink bikini.

Sweet convertible!

My mom’s having a midlife crisis. I turned my back and put the top up, not wanting Linda to see how much Jenny, as the maternal unit liked to be called, got under my skin. Best to maintain in the habit of keeping the car closed. If it got rained in or a cat had kittens, Jenny would have a fit. It hadn’t escaped my notice that she cared more about the car than she did about me.

Go up and change. I’ll meet you at the pool.

I’d used the guest room a few times. It looked out at the huge spread next door, a place that had once been a cattle ranch and was now another home for people with megabucks who moved to California from every place else.

A hoodie hung over a chaise lounge by their bigger pool and a pair of huge sneakers rested on the cement. Looked like a boy had moved into the place.

I did a double-take when I caught sight of horses, fine horses, in a new

Reviews for Ranch Dad

[William Jones · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was really good. I enjoyed the layout of the story. Wish there was a sequel.