Harland Pike is just a normal lawman, used to quiet nights and routine calls. But the Palo Duro case-an eight-year-old mystery of vanished victims and erased evidence-never stays buried. Whispers across dusty saloons and rattling jail cells speak of a shadowy outlaw called "Big Iron," a name once dismissed as frontier legend. Previous sheriffs chalked up missing victims to wanderlust or bad luck, but the pattern is too precise-each disappearance follows in Big Iron's cold, calculated wake. There's no shattered vaults or missing cash, only empty homes and terrified families. His victims vanish in the dead of night, swallowed by shadows before anyone can raise an alarm. No ransom notes surface, no bodies turn up; just the cold certainty that whoever saw him once is never seen again. Sheriff Pike has sifted through every rumor and rumor's rumor, and he's convinced that Big Iron's kidnapping spree stretches back decades. Pike still follows the faintest trail-clues scrawled on half-burned diaries, a battered horseshoe imprint in dry clay, and that lone locket. He's the only one left hunting a phantom, and he won't rest until he uncovers where Big Iron hides his prisoners... and why. WARNING!!!: contains swearing & mentions of death, suicide, kidnapping, murder, abuse, etc.

(Jacaerys Velaryon X OC ) Slow burn Enemies to Lovers x Forbidden Love Nyra Blackmont the niece of Ser Criston Cole . Nyra used to live in the Northern stromlands near the Dornish Marches. But that quickly changed after her only surviving parent her Father died in a unknown way causing Nyra to grieve heavily . Later she got took in by the most closest family member she knew all her life her Uncle Ser Cristion Cole , moving into King's Landing far away from her home that she knew all her life. Her uncle was controlling , she hated him could never see the good in him. That's why when she was told by him that she would have to disguise herself as a "Royal advisor" to destabilize Rhaenyra's war council she hated him even more then she possibly could. The Green had told Nrya to get as much information as she could including from Prince Jacaerys Velaryon Rhaenyra's heir. The Greens had describe Jacaerys as a Mean evil person that would bloodshed every person that gets in his way . But what happens when Nyra starts to find out the lies that were whispered in her ears by her Uncle and the Greens finding out who the real enemies are .