𝕞𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥
Joel Miller is back home running his family’s ranch, the work coming back to him easily even as the house fills with the memories of what happened thirty years ago.
He hires a young farm hand, expecting nothing more than help around the barn. Instead, he finds someone just as lost as he is.
|| MDNI 18+, joel miller x reader, angst, eventual smut, rancher!joel, cowboy!joel, retiredpornstar!joel, horsegirl!reader (kinda), western vibes, ranch life, estranged family, grief, chosen family, romance, flirting, swearing, lots of talk about horses plz bear w me, nurturing joel miller, sarah lives and is canonically aged up, tension, yearning, older man x younger woman, reader was in uni but (legal) age gap is not specified, themes of pregnancy & pregnancy complications, trauma surrounding birth & pregnancy, some drinking, eating, avoidant tendencies, emotional reader, everyone bottles up their feelings yipeeeee, no animal death, some mentions of skipped meals, emotional smut, intimacy, kissing || total word count: 40k a/n: thank you to this anon for sparking my inspiration for this story! it started as an idea to do some fun adult film star joel fanfic and then as I wrote it, it became way more angsty than I was expecting :') hope you enjoy my loves!! teaser 1
