Where The Water Breaks
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MatureComplete Mon, Jul 20, 202610h 21m
Water is power in Ridgeway County.
Lainey Heath has no intention of letting the wrong men take it.
When drought politics, land rights, and old county loyalties collide, Lainey finds herself in a brutal fight over the future of the basin and the people who depend on it. She's prepared for the hearings, the pressure, and the men who think they can outmaneuver her.
She's not prepared for Rhett Dennison.
A county commissioner with his own name to protect and his own reasons for entering the fight, Rhett becomes the one person standing beside her when the room turns hostile. What begins as tension burns into something far more dangerous as power plays turn personal, boundaries collapse, and the battle over land and water becomes a battle over love, trust, and survival.
Because in Ridgeway County, men like Boone Mercer believe love makes a woman easier to break.
They are wrong.
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