Hadley Reeves has spent her whole life making herself small. Small job, small hopes, small heart — anything to avoid wanting something that could be taken away. She’s good at it. She’s had plenty of practice.
Ridge Calloway has spent years being careful around Hadley. She’s his sister’s best friend, over a decade younger, and the one woman he’s never let himself want out loud. Distance is safer. Kinder. That’s the lie he’s been telling himself since her eighteenth birthday.
When Bear — Ridge’s ancient chocolate Lab and the ranch’s self-appointed guardian — is shot by a stranger scoping the Calloway property, it’s Hadley who saves his life. And it’s the long night that follows, sitting across a recovery cage in the dark, that finally breaks the careful distance Ridge has spent years building.
But the stranger didn’t come for the dog. He came for Hadley. And her father’s bad debts are about to make her the most dangerous kind of target: someone a desperate man thinks nobody will miss.
The Rancher’s Redemption is a sweet, closed-door romance about two people who built their lives around not wanting things, and what happens when wanting finds them anyway. Set in the wide-sky ranch country of Colorado, it’s the first book in the Cedar Hollow series.
