Embers at Red Mesa: A second-chance western historical romance of land, scandal, and surrender

A second-chance western romance of land, scandal, and surrender.Willa Hart has learned the hard way that life is generous only with hard choices. As a widow fighting to hold onto her ranch, she has cultivated a reputation for being cool, plain, and unbothered-armor against a town like Cobre Wells that loves nothing more than to make a sermon out of a woman's struggles.When a storm forces her to seek shelter at the ranch of Jared Mercer, the man she once trusted with unguarded laughter, the carefully constructed walls between them begin to crumble. Jared, a man hardened by war and carrying the weight of his own secrets, has never stopped wanting her. But in a county where reputation is as necessary as flour and enemies are quick to forge lies to steal land, a second chance might cost them everything.Caught between a past they couldn't control and a future they can barely admit they want, Willa and Jared must decide if the fire smoldering between them is a destructive force or the only thing left worth saving.