There's a lifetime of tension between the McKenna and Stafford ranching families, and Oakley Stafford has the bullet scar to prove it. Defying the bitter rivalry between their families, Oakley grew up thick as thieves with Duffy McKenna. But now the Staffords and the McKennas are competing to buy a neighbouring property. Both need that land desperately, and the reasons are more dangerous than Oakley knows.
But there's another, unspoken rivalry, too, between Duffy and Pickett Hanson, the McKenna family's ranch hand. Once upon a time, Oakley ignored the way the two handsome cowboys playfully flirted with her, but now she's untangling complicated feelings that could upend years of friendship. And when a body is found on the contested ranch, their secrets will be forced into the open at last...
“Cowboy's Reckoning”
Billie Dee Rhodes moved to Gilt Edge, Montana, from Texas in search of a new start, and she found it in a Cook Wanted sign in the window of the Stagecoach Saloon. She jokes that she's looking for a cowboy and love, but when it walks in the door in the form of retired rancher Henry Larson, she gets more than she bargained for. But when Billie Dee's past starts catching up with her and Henry proves to have secrets of his own, has love come too late?
