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Jolie thought she knew what survival looked like. After her parents died, leaving her stranded in a toxic, suffocating life in New York, it was Dallas who saved her. He threw her a lifeline when she was drowning, but he was too old for her-they were two different people from two different worlds, never meant to last.
Desperate to forget her past and Dallas, she found Cole. He was the perfect young man. Sweet, safe, and logical. Armed with her medical education, Jolie buried herself in her work at the local clinic, quickly becoming the town's quiet savior whenever a medical crisis struck. She thought she was building a clean, respectable future based on cold logic.
But logic has no power when there was someone else waiting in the shadows of the ranch... someone who completely rewired her mind and ruined every sensible thought she ever had.
He is thirty-six years of raw muscle, scarred hands, and terrifying authority. He is a brooding rancher who rules his land with an iron fist, a man the entire county fears to cross. He should be the last man she turns to. He should be completely off-limits.
Yet, when his massive hands wrap around her waist, the rest of the world ceases to exist. He is dangerous, forbidden, and the only man who can keep her safe when a sudden, vicious scandal turns the entire valley against her.
As a looming threat gridlocks the valley and the tension inside the Calhoun ranch reaches a shattering boiling point, Jolie must use every ounce of her medical instincts to save the very people who want her ruined, while she and Jack are forced to play a high-stakes game against the dark.
Some boundaries are never meant to be crossed. But in the dark, rules break.
Can a love born from absolute wreckage survive? Or will their Texas sins consume them both?