Hopefully you don't mind honorifics at least, as it's a little overfamiliar for my liking otherwise - and believe me, not many things are.

[At the very least his voice isn't betraying exactly how hard he wants to twitch at that; first-name basis is so rude on the first day...]

I can't say I've ever heard of Desert Bluffs, either, though it sounds lovely judging by name alone.