Glenn Hawley is care-worn and just plain wore out. He gave up a law enforcement career to save his family, only to find himself on the wrong side of progress and teetering on bankruptcy. He needs a reason to get up in the morning… a reason to fight.

Ava Manning is in town on a business trip. She’s tough, resourceful and laser focused, but when a weathered cowboy catches her eye, she makes room on her itinerary for negotiations of the social kind.

Glenn Hawley has secrets, but Ava isn’t the kind of woman to leave negotiations up to chance. She leaves the door open for more, even if means embroiling herself in a web of intrigue and danger.

The old saw—be careful what you wish for— comes home to roost when the fight lands on Glenn’s doorstep in a hail of bullets. Unable to escape his past mistakes, and with the consequences of bad luck and poor choices closing in from every side, everything Glenn Hawley cares about is in jeopardy.

It’s going to take more than a village to help the ex-sheriff save his ranch, his way of life and the family he is willing to risk everything for. As for his own redemption, sometimes it only takes one person to make all the difference.

In the shadow of Wyoming’s sweeping national grasslands, when history and the present collide, it will take more than a united front to protect an uncertain future where the stakes are high and courage is all you have left.

This is a standalone novel.

Jade Horse Publishing