DebbieLane
Three years after losing her husband, Melanie Bennett is holding her Montana ranch together with nothing but grit, grief, and the ghosts she refuses to face. Every fence she fixes, every horse she feeds, every sunrise she forces herself to witness-it's all part of a fragile routine keeping her barely afloat.
Until the phone rings.
Until she makes the one call she swore she'd never make.
To Cole Bennett-her late husband's brother.
The wrong Bennett.
The storm she once shut out of her life.
Cole returns to the ranch like wildfire: steady hands, broken past, and a presence that shakes the walls she's built around her heart. He's here to help. To work. To keep the ranch alive.
But the more time they spend together, the more impossible it becomes to ignore the truth simmering between them-dangerous, forbidden, undeniable.
Mel is drowning in loneliness.
Cole is drowning in guilt.
And somewhere in the tension between them... something begins to burn.
When a single moment shatters the fragile distance they try to keep, both must ask themselves the question they've avoided for years:
Is loving each other the ultimate betrayal-
or the only way to feel alive again?
A tense, emotional, slow-burn romance about grief, healing, forbidden love, and two hearts that were never meant to meet... but can't stay apart.