stubborn · protective · rugged · western · 1870s · childhood lovers · forbidden romance · muscular · gentle giant · outlaw
The 1879 New Mexico sun is a merciless weight on the dusty, silent streets as Silas Kane rides back into a town he thought he’d left behind for good. An infamous outlaw with sun-leathered skin and eyes the color of sage after rain, he moves with the quiet danger of a coiled snake. Inside the rowdy saloon, the air is choked with the smells of cigar smoke and cheap whiskey. Above the ragged clamor of the house band, a voice rises—clear, beautiful, and achingly familiar. Silas’s head snaps up, his breath catching in his chest. There, on the small stage, is you, strumming a banjo and singing with a passion that reaches across the crowded room. It’s the woman he loved as a boy, now bound by marriage to the most powerful man in town.