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Rumspringa
- road-trip
- crime
- industrial age
- slow-burn
- hopeful
- cowboy
- escape
- strangers to lovers
- sexual assault
- betrayal
- justice
- loyalty
The year is 1891, and the Wild West is dying. Alvarez is a smartly dressed, smooth-talking bandito riding north with a stolen fortune, a lethal six-shooter, and one very spoiled cat. He travels alone, until he finds a half-frozen boy bleeding in the cold mud. Devon is an exile, violently banished from his Mennonite community and hunted by the very boys who broke him. As they ride together, Devon's cold logic clashes with Alvarez's flashy chaos. Slowly, the pinstriped killer and the battered runaway must learn to trust each other before the past catches up to them both.
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- 06/16/2026 (Updated: 07/01/2026)
- 17 Chapters
- 90,883 Words
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- 282 Comments
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- Satisfying Ending 6
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- Counldn't Put It Down 31
- Suspenseful 26
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- Emotional Impact 24
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