‘The Lonely Ones' by Bailey Bradford Marshall's all city, and Rex is all cowboy, so it's no wonder sparks fly when they meet. Marshall Evans never wanted to inherit his grandfather's Thoroughbred horse ranch. He doesn't know much about raising and training racehorses, and he knows even less about the man who left him what he sees as a burden. His grandfather wasn't a nice man at all, and he left the ranch to Marshall more as a fuck you to the one person who did want the ranch, who had tried to buy it, and had put up with years of verbal and at times, physical abuse, only to have his home yanked out from under his feet. Rex Martinez had only ever had one home, and that was the ranch. Now he was about to lose it. Marshall arrives in the small town of Erring, NM, only to be confronted by this silently furious man, and together, they're going to have to work out what to do. The will stipulates that Marshall can't sell the ranch to Rex, because Allen found out Rex was gay. Rex didn't know he knew, but the old man had no idea about Marshall since Marshall hadn't been raised anywhere near him. It's not as simple as selling the ranch, either. Marshall thinks it will be, but no. He can't put Rex out of a home so easily. ‘Racing for Home' by Morticia Knight Groom Charlie loves the Piedmont Farms horses—but not nearly as much as the man he can never have, Edward Piedmont. At the age of twenty-two, Charlie has lived at Piedmont Farms—the largest race horse breeding facility on the east coast—for eight years. For five of those years, he's been desperately in love with Albert Piedmont's oldest son, Edward. At one time, he believed Edward's declarations that they'd be together forever. It was a brutal slap in the face when Edward married a local heiress and moved away to live with her on her family estate. Only his love of the horses, including one in particular, has kept him from complete despair. Edward knows that horse groom Charlie must hate him after being abandon