Clementine Harper has no intention of marrying.
Not the banker's son with polished boots. Not the rancher who boasts too loudly. Not even the steady widower who brings her fresh-cut lumber "just in case."
Suitors come calling at her prairie homestead, hats in hand and hopeful smiles ready - but Miss Clementine is content with her cabin, her land, and her independence.
Then one evening, a stranger collapses near her fence line.
Wounded. Fevered. Barely alive.
With no questions asked, Clementine brings him inside and begins the long work of nursing him back to health. As the days stretch into quiet evenings, she begins to see the man beneath the scars - a man who asks for nothing and expects even less.
And for the first time, Miss Clementine's carefully guarded heart begins to stir.
But when the past that nearly killed him comes riding in, Clementine must decide whether love is worth the risk... and whether this stranger is the one man she was never meant to refuse.
Autorentext
Wyatt Slade writes Westerns where mercy is scarce and survival is earned.
His stories are stripped down, fast, and unforgiving ? built for readers who like their heroes hard and their endings harder.