Duke Oakley

Duke, a character in the Big Sky Country series, is the eldest son of Cliff Oakley, Sawyer's older brother and the father of Brooklynne. He is first seen in Book 1, Chapter 1.

Appearance
Duke has short brown hair with a receding hairline and brown eyes. He usually wears a light blue western shirt with embroidery. In Chapter 1, he is described to be husky.

Personality
As the older brother, who also became a teenaged parent when he was still in high school, Duke had to "grow up real quick." He thinks of himself as a realist, not an idealist, and because he wanted a better life for his daughter, he left the ranch after high school.

Book 1

 * Chapter 1: Country Roads
 * Chapter 2: Moonlight Moonshine
 * Chapter 3: Welcome to Sweetridge
 * Chapter 4: Helping Hands
 * Chapter 5: Fair Play
 * Chapter 6: All's Fair
 * Chapter 7: Back in the Saddle
 * Chapter 8: City Slickers
 * Chapter 9: A Hell of an Offer
 * Chapter 10: Hitting the Trail
 * Chapter 11: Trials of the Trail
 * Chapter 12: Fugitive Blues
 * Chapter 13: Fire and Ice
 * Chapter 14: End of the Line
 * Chapter 15: High Noon
 * Chapter 16: Hoedown Heartache

Book 2

 * Chapter 1: The New Normal
 * Chapter 2: Sweetridge, USA
 * Chapter 4: This Ain't Your First Rodeo
 * Chapter 5: The Sweetridge Derby
 * Chapter 6: Life is a Highway
 * Chapter 7: Ridin' High
 * Chapter 9: Heavy Burden (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 10: Happy Birthday, Darlin'

Sawyer Oakley
Duke has a strained relationship with his younger brother Sawyer. Duke travels a lot for work and hardly spends time on the ranch. Sawyer blames him for that while Duke considers his younger brother's hobby of riding in a rodeo "irresponsible, life-threatening". At the end of Book 1, Chapter 3, they have a heated argument that results in them getting into a fistfight.

Brooklynne Shao-Oakley
Brooklynne is Duke's daughter who spends most of the time with her mother because Duke is constantly traveling for his work. She spends the summer with him. In a premium scene in Book 1, Chapter 4, Duke tells Your Character that Brooklynne was born when Duke was eighteen and that he and her mother were still in high school.

Trivia

 * In Book 1, Chapter 8, it is shown that he is acrophobic, meaning he is afraid of heights.