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▍ AN ORIGINAL ╱ western romance
There's a kind of wild you can't outrun.
Lemon Odell knows this better than anyone-the kind that lives under your skin, that shapes the way you move, the way you fight, the way you break. Born into a bloodline stitched together by rodeo dust and ruin, she was raised to wear her name like armor... and to know the price of standing still.
When a brutal accident shakes the fragile bones of her world, Lemon's life collides with two men who carry their own storms-Colt Langmore, the man she thought she could save, and Rhett Weston, the stranger with a half-broken smile and a past he wears like a second skin. One is the gravity she can't escape. The other is the blaze daring her to let go.
As the rodeo lights burn hotter and the dangers sharpen their teeth, Lemon finds herself walking the knife's edge between loyalty and betrayal, survival and surrender, the ghosts of who she was and the fire of who she might become.
But out here, nothing stays buried.
And under the weight of blood, bone, and heartbreak, she'll have to decide just how far she's willing to ride into the dark... and what's worth losing along the way.
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