The Ghost in the Draw

She moved to a small Texas hill country town to disappear.

She didn't expect the dead to follow her there.

Cassidy Noble left the reining circuit two years ago - left the money, the corruption, and the man she watched die at the Silver Cup. She's an artist now. She keeps her head down. She signs her name to a farm she means to keep and tells herself the worst is over.

Then she sees him.

The man at the bakery counter isn't Sam Xao. Sam is dead. But he moves like Sam, holds a rein like Sam, and when he leans past her to unlatch a gate, he says the one word in the world she never told anyone.

Her name for her. Only ever his.

Now Cassidy is tangled in a web of fixed shows, falsified scores, and a syndicate that has already killed once - and she's caught between two men who both know more than they're saying: the ghost from her past, and the detective who's been watching her since she arrived.

One of them built her a life here.

The other might be the only thing standing between her and the people who want it burned down.