Sawtooth Mountains Stories

After a cataclysmic tragedy leaves her alone in the world, Gabriela Kincaid climbs into her father's ancient pickup and strikes off on her own, turning her back on everything she knows. No destination in mind, moving toward nothing but distance.Just somewhere.Fate chooses her destination, and she finds herself in Jasper Ridge, Idaho, a small town in the shadow of the Sawtooth Range. With nowhere else to get to, and no way to get anywhere else, she decides to make her home there.Heath Cahill is fighting the demons of his own horrific past. A son of the most important rancher in Jasper Ridge, he's tethered to the town, so he's made his escape inward, turning his back on any new chances for a happy life.But he sees something in the eyes of the young woman who walks into the town saloon: a guarded pain he recognizes as like his own. He tries to resist the pull he feels, but with a nudge from Fate, friends, and family, Heath opens his heart again.Together, they find love and hope for happiness. First, though, they must face a past that neither has escaped.

Honor Babinot is one of the best defense attorneys in Idaho, with a long list of high-profile wins on her resumé already. But her elite law firm is an old-boys' club, and to the partners she's just a 'little lady,' despite her success. After another major win in the courtroom, she makes a bold move to leave the swanky office behind and step out on her own.Someday, she'll reach the success she's worked so hard for, and on her own terms.Logan Cahill is the eldest son of a powerful rancher and heir to the Cahill family legacy. He's also a notorious ladies' man, who's avoided commitment to anything but his family. Now that he's past forty, and his younger siblings have the next generation of Cahills handled, Logan is well set in his ways and perfectly content to be married to the Twisted C Ranch.Someday, he'll be head of the family he loves, and he wants nothing to draw him from it.Since Honor saved Logan's younger brother from conviction for a murder he didn't commit, she's taken up acreage in his head. Honor certainly remembers Logan. A chance encounter brings them back together, and sudden trouble draws them close. They can't deny or resist the fire that ignites between them.Honor is married to her career. Logan is married to the Twisted C. Neither wants to need the other. Neither has room in their plans for love.But love has plans of its own.

Gigi Mackenzie left home in a hurry ten years ago, and she hasn't looked back. She's spent the decade traveling the world, moving fast, never landing anywhere long, chasing something she's never been able to find, or even define. In all those years, there's only one thing, one person, she's truly missed-the one person she hadn't been running from at all. The person she hurt most when she left. When she gets word of trouble at home, she knows she has to go back. Tragedy sent her flying, and tragedy brings her back to the nest. Like his father and his grandfather before him, Reese Webb runs The Apple Jack Saloon. In more than forty years of life, he's hardly crossed the Idaho state line, and he has no need or intention to go anywhere. Jasper Ridge, and the Jack-that's his home. He's a man who likes things to stay the way they are. Ten years ago, he meant to bring the love of his life home to these familiar, well-worn walls. But the night before their wedding, she ran away. Now Gigi is back, and Reese realizes there's a reason he's been standing in place all this time. He's been waiting. But has too much time, and too much pain, filled the space between them?