When Sienna Ward returns to her family’s fading horse ranch in Willow Creek, she expects quiet mornings and long days repairing what’s left. She doesn’t expect Cal Bennett the man she once loved waiting in the stables, older now, carrying the same grief she’s tried to bury. Years ago, a fire destroyed more than the barn. It left behind secrets neither of them ever faced.
With her father gone and her stallion Echo restless in the dark, Sienna starts to wonder if the land remembers more than it should. Cal has tried for years to forget that night the smoke, the shouting, the choice he can’t take back. But her return brings it all flooding back: the guilt, the want, the truth still buried in ash.
As old emotions surface and whispers rise from the burned fields, both must face what really happened before it happens again.
Some fires never die. Some burn for love.
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Their story is only one among the souls forever Bound by Instinct.
In a world where instinct runs deeper than logic, love and danger move side by side. Bound by Instinct follows five souls whose closest companions creatures with eyes that see beyond hold the key to unraveling mysteries buried in shadow. Each story pulses with desire and unease, every heartbeat echoing between trust and fear. From windswept coasts to quiet, forgotten farms, the bond between human and animal becomes something timeless a bridge across life, death, and the kind of love that refuses to fade. Sometimes salvation isn’t human at all. It’s the instinct that never lets go.
