Perfection is his brand. Control is his armor.
Twenty-six-year-old elite showjumper Cassian Vale has built a life where nothing is left to chance. Every win is calculated, every emotion suppressed to fit the brand. He is The Perfect Riding Machine, well-oiled and unbreakable. And also empty inside.
His meticulously structured world shatters when he’s informed of a career-defining gamble decided behind his back by his sponsors and tame a dangerous, unrideable stallion with a one-in-a-million talent for a shot at the Olympics. A legendary pairing, by all accounts. If it works.
He's sent to a remote ranch and into the hands of the only person known in the circuit as capable of such a horse whisperer—the Whisperer—a gifted, reclusive trainer whose quiet, intuitive methods defy everything Cassian believes in, but whose proof is also undeniable.
The Whisperer doesn’t demand perfection; he demands honesty, which is so much worse. As he pushes Cassian to connect with the horse, he systematically dismantles the walls around Cassian’s heart, forcing him to confront the broken man behind the flawless facade.
Stripped of his defenses, Cassian is caught between the career that defines him and the Whisperer who unravels him. And in the choice between the perfect lie of a lifetime and a beautiful, terrifying future in truth, the only thing certain is that something will be ruined.
The question is, what?
Rein Ready is a standalone, strangers-to-lovers MM romance told in single POV, first-person, present tense. It's got soft pining, a dash of shenanigans (horse and human), an emotional wreck of a protagonist, and a competent af neurodivergent MC. It is the story of a beautiful connection between two very different men in search of the exact same thing, and of their hard-earned HEA sealed in black ink.
(Please read safely! CWs may include: SH/SI, hookup outside main pairing (pre-meeting, no cheating), ED, and others. Consult full list on my website or the last pages of the book.)
Astra June
