He was the man every woman in Briar Creek was warned about.
So of course, he was the only one I could trust.
I came home for my mother’s funeral.
I expected grief.
I expected gossip.
I even expected the church ladies to whisper over casseroles and perfume.
I did not expect white roses on my porch.
A bloody handprint on my bedroom door.
Or Caleb Rourke waiting in the dark with a shotgun and a warning.
Caleb is Blackthorn Ranch’s dangerous owner.
Scarred. Quiet. Rough.
The kind of man Briar Creek lowers its voice to talk about.
They say he killed his brother.
But the more I uncover about my mother’s death, the more I realize this town has been lying for years.
Mara Hart was not crazy.
She was a witness.
And someone wants me silenced before I find what she hid.
Caleb says I should stay behind locked doors.
I say I am done being protected like I am fragile.
So he teaches me how to shoot.
How to fight.
How to survive.
And when his rough hands finally touch me, I learn something even more dangerous.
I do not want safe.
I want him.
But Briar Creek has teeth, and the closer Caleb and I get to the truth, the more this town wants to turn him into the monster they always claimed he was.
Too bad for them.
I am Mara Hart’s daughter.
And this time, the woman they tried to bury is coming back with a gun.
His Rough Hands is a dark, steamy small-town cowboy romance with a protective scarred rancher, forced proximity, romantic suspense, small-town corruption, forbidden heat, no cheating, and a guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Romance
So of course, he was the only one I could trust.
I came home for my mother’s funeral.
I expected grief.
I expected gossip.
I even expected the church ladies to whisper over casseroles and perfume.
I did not expect white roses on my porch.
A bloody handprint on my bedroom door.
Or Caleb Rourke waiting in the dark with a shotgun and a warning.
Caleb is Blackthorn Ranch’s dangerous owner.
Scarred. Quiet. Rough.
The kind of man Briar Creek lowers its voice to talk about.
They say he killed his brother.
But the more I uncover about my mother’s death, the more I realize this town has been lying for years.
Mara Hart was not crazy.
She was a witness.
And someone wants me silenced before I find what she hid.
Caleb says I should stay behind locked doors.
I say I am done being protected like I am fragile.
So he teaches me how to shoot.
How to fight.
How to survive.
And when his rough hands finally touch me, I learn something even more dangerous.
I do not want safe.
I want him.
But Briar Creek has teeth, and the closer Caleb and I get to the truth, the more this town wants to turn him into the monster they always claimed he was.
Too bad for them.
I am Mara Hart’s daughter.
And this time, the woman they tried to bury is coming back with a gun.
His Rough Hands is a dark, steamy small-town cowboy romance with a protective scarred rancher, forced proximity, romantic suspense, small-town corruption, forbidden heat, no cheating, and a guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Romance
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