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Topher Lydon
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
- 9,337 Views
- 262 Comments
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- Action Packed 24
- Addictive/Pacing 23
- Characters 26
- Chills 16
- Cliffhanger 18
- Compelling 24
- Feel-Good 16
- Humor 19
- Smoldering 16
- Tearjerker 17
- Unique 15
- World Building 14
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