Wild Hearts Don't Break

He waited ten years. She never knew he existed.

She swore shed never come back.

When her estranged father dies, financial consultant Dakota Wilder returns to the failing family ranch she fled ten years ago—and the painful memories she left behind. She has ninety days to save Wilder Creek Ranch from foreclosure, and shes determined to do it alone. The last thing she needs is help from anyone, especially the quiet, guarded ranch hand who seems to see right through her walls.

Hes been waiting his whole life.

Colt Carver has loved Dakota since before she knew his name. As a young ranch hand, he watched her from afar, knowing hed never be good enough for the bosss daughter. When she left, he stayed—working the ranch, leaving flowers on her mothers grave, waiting for a woman who might never return. Now shes back, and shes more beautiful and broken than he remembered.

But Dakotas homecoming unearths secrets that someone has killed to keep buried. As they work together to save the ranch and expose a decades-old conspiracy, the tension between them ignites into something neither expected. Can two wounded souls learn to trust again? Or will the ghosts of the past destroy their chance at a future?

Wild Hearts Dont Break is the first book in the Wild Hearts of Copper Creek series—a heartfelt Western romance about second chances, small-town secrets, and the courage it takes to finally come home.