Soul Ties

Lucy Carter expected a quiet summer helping her aunt on a remote desert ranch.

She did not expect Orenda.

Mysterious, beautiful, and endlessly frustrating, the town's shamaness is a woman wrapped in rumors and old stories. The locals whisper about spirits, magic, and secrets hidden beneath the desert sands. Lucy tells herself she wants nothing to do with any of it-especially not the maddening woman who seems determined to get under her skin.

But avoiding Orenda proves impossible.

From hidden waterfalls and winding canyon trails to moonlit rivers and endless desert skies, an unlikely connection begins to grow between them. Yet when fear, gossip, and centuries-old legends threaten to drive them apart, Lucy must decide whether to trust the stories she has heard-or the woman she has come to know.

As passions ignite beneath the desert sun and hearts become tangled in ways neither expected, Lucy and Orenda discover that some bonds run deeper than fear, deeper than distance, and deeper than time itself.

A sweeping slow-burn romance filled with longing, adventure, humor, and heart, Soul Ties: A Tale of Love and the Desert is a story about finding home in the most unexpected place-and finding love in the last person you ever expected to need.