The Cowboy and the Stray
A bruised runaway. A guarded cowboy. And a ranch full of secrets.
Tess: I fled Las Vegas with nothing but bruises on my skin and panic in my throat. No money. No phone. No plan. Just a single goal to disappear. When I woke up in a stranger’s bed on a secluded Texas ranch, that goal got harder to hold onto. Especially when Calder Maddox looked at me like I was something he wanted to protect. He’s distant. Guarded. Dangerous in ways I don’t understand. I should’ve left the second I could stand on my own. But I didn’t. Something about Hollow Ridge keeps pulling me deeper. And Calder? He’s the quiet storm I never saw coming.
Calder: She was bleeding. Beautiful. And completely wrong for this place. I told myself letting her stay was a mistake. But I kept her anyway. Let her stay one more day. I’ve spent my life holding this ranch together, hiding the truth beneath silence and soil. I don’t have room for complications. Tess is all sharp edges and haunting eyes, digging under my skin and asking questions I can’t answer. She doesn’t know what I am. What we are. She just knows she’s not safe. And for some reason, she trusts me anyway. But secrets don’t stay buried long in Hollow Ridge. The longer she stays, the harder it gets to protect her. Even from myself.
The Wrangler and the Tenderfoot
She’s not a geologist. He’s not just a cowboy. And the land between their ranches is hiding something that changes everything.
Jennie: I’m not here to fall for anyone. I’m here to find what the Colemans are hiding on land they don’t even own, build a case, and get out before anyone figures out I’m not the geologist I’m pretending to be. I’ve been undercover before. I know how to keep my head down and my cover clean. What I didn’t count on was Reid Coulter, quiet and immovable as the limestone ridges on this land. He knows I’m lying. I know what he is. We’re both sitting on secrets that should make this simple, and somehow it keeps getting harder to remember why I’m supposed to leave.
Reid: She’s not a geologist. I knew that by the end of the second day, and I kept meeting her anyway, because my wolf had already made up his mind, and because whoever she really was, she looked up at a two-hundred-pound wolf in full charge and didn’t run. I’ve spent my whole life on this land, and I don’t let people in easily. Jennie Benson walked onto the neighboring ranch with a cover story and a sidearm and worked her way into my mind. Somewhere between the limestone ridge and the line shack and every conversation where she gave me something real without giving me everything, I stopped looking for reasons to keep my distance.
About this story: The Wrangler and the Tenderfoot is the second book in the Wolves of Maddox Ranch series and stands completely on its own. If you love slow-burn paranormal romance with real danger, a hero who’d move mountains and never mention it, and a heroine who’s the smartest person in the room and knows exactly how much trouble that is, Reid and Jennie are waiting for you in Hollow Ridge.
The Loner and the Wildcat
Some secrets never stay buried. When the past comes calling in Hollow Ridge, Sloane is forced to face the one man she never expected to see again. With Noah caught in the middle and Micah carrying ghosts of his own, old wounds and unfinished business threaten to change everything.
Coming Soon.