The monster from Sagebrush Hollow: a cozy romance with prairie magic, reluctant vows, and cowboy who never saw joy coming.

I follow joy for a living. Then my magical map led me straight to a monster cowboy who insists we're getting married. (For fans of marriage-of-convenience monster romance, magical maps with opinions, grumpy cowboys, and gnomes who treat sexual education like a sacred calling.) My name is Linette Hollowell. Joy Cartographer. Explorer. Professional believer that staying in one place is how adventures go to die. For years, I've traveled the Hollows mapping currents of joy and wonder. My magical map has led me to hidden treasures, forgotten magic, and exactly zero husbands. Until now. A fracture is spreading between Wren's Hollow and Sagebrush Hollow, threatening both lands. My map says the answer is somewhere in the borderlands. Unfortunately, the borderlands belong to Rowke Blackfell. Monster. Cowboy. Human embodiment of responsibility. Apparently, ancient Ridgeborne magic requires him to marry a woman from Wren's Hollow to heal the land. My map says that woman is me. Now the border is failing, the local magic is behaving strangely, and an entire caravan of gnomes has arrived determined to save Sagebrush from its tragic lack of orgasms. That's a hard no right there. Maybe. Welcome to Sagebrush Hollow-where monster cowboys marry for practical reasons, magical maps refuse to mind their business, and the border between duty and joy is getting harder to see. TROPES YOU'LL FIND INSIDE: Joy Cartographer x Ridgeborne monster cowboy Marriage of convenience arranged by ancient magic A magical map that refuses to mind its business Duty-bound monster meets professional adventurer He thinks responsibility solves everything She thinks roots are optional Forced proximity on the frontier Healing a Hollow by accidentally healing yourselves One very large mythical horse with opinions Found family arriving by wagon train Gnomes treating sexual education like a civic duty High yearning beneath aggressively practical decision-making "You cannot possibly be serious." / "I am." Spice level: prairie sunsets, reluctant vows, and monster cowboy devotion Two stubborn idiots standing between a magical catastrophe and their feelings Book Six of The Hollow Hearth Series by Tansy Applewood: For readers who crave cozy monster romance, magical matchmaking, monster cowboys, and the deeply inconvenient realization that joy and duty were never meant to live apart.