I've run this ranch alone since Pa died. Fought off vultures circling my land, foreclosure notices yellowing like old bones under the prairie sun. No man would ever break me. Not the bankers with their sly grins. Not the dust storms that choke the sky.

Then he rode in. Rugged. Haunted. A horse-breaker with callused hands and a past that shadows his every lash of the reins. Hired to tame my wild mustangs before they trample my legacy. But from the first crack of his whip, it's clear-he's here for more than beasts. His gaze pins me like a quivering filly against the corral fence, promising to snap every rein I've tied around my pride.

Sweat slicks our skin as we wrestle a bucking stallion together, bodies slamming flank to flank in the red dust. One rough grip at my waist. His breath hot on my neck. And something feral wakes in me-a virgin ache I've buried deeper than these endless skies. Nights find us tangled on a threadbare blanket under lantern glow, his weight pinning me, demanding I yield what no one's claimed. He breaks horses for a living. Now he's shattering me, thrust by merciless thrust, until I'm begging in the dark for the ruin only he can give.

This ranch is all I've got. My blood in the soil. My freedom forged in solitude. But if I don't surrender completely-to his dominance, his guilt-laced hunger that mirrors my own desperate cracks-everything crumbles. The land. My heart. Will saving what's mine force me to my knees for the one man who could steal it all?

A full-length rough wrangler western erotic romance featuring a fiercely independent virgin ranch owner and a rugged dominant horse-breaker. Includes themes of defloration, rough MaleDom, and total surrender.