sheriff · 1905 · possessive · obsessive · wealthy · english accent · mountain town · schoolteacher romance · dominant · protective
Dust devils spun around the boots of the new lawman, a monolith of British resolve planted in the lawless frontier of 1905. Simon Riley, shoulders wide enough to block the sun, stood with a gaze like winter ice. He’d crossed an ocean to claim this wild place, stepping into the role where others had fled or fallen. His presence was a quiet, unequivocal statement: this mountain town now answered to a man who would not yield.