I'm not familiar with Tin Star. Do you remember the author's name, Clyde? And is that romance as in romance or romance as in sex? Gay male "bodice-ripper" or gay male "Harlequin Romance"?
Of course, before I worry myself so much about gay Western novels, I ought to read more of Annie Proulx's short stories.
Well Jeff, it is pretty much of a "zipper-popper!"
"You got an owie, oh, let's go to bed." "You're home from work, oh, let's go to bed." "you got kicked out of the house, oh, let's go to bed." It wasn't too bad, but don't expect Dickens, or even Mickey Spillane. I was able to finish it. But I like my sex a little sexier, and motivated by more than "It's been ten pages, it's time to do it again."
It ain't lit, but it was fun.
I got it at Amazon.