Stranger: A Western BL
Stranger
Hayate Kuku
A sheriff left to die in the desert is rescued by a Native American man he cannot stop thinking about.
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Synopsis
Frank's cargo escort goes badly wrong, and after three days without water he expects to die. Toto finds him and gets him back to town. They share no customs and little language, and Frank wants to thank him and to understand why gratitude is not the whole of what he feels. A one-volume western.
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