Kai's Saving Grace

At twenty-one, Grace Foster has everything she needs packed into an old pickup and a Border Collie named Ruger riding shotgun.

A ranch-hand position thousands of miles from everything she's ever known is supposed to be a fresh start. No history. No questions. And, most importantly, no one who knows the story behind the scars she keeps carefully hidden.

Kai Bennett wasn't supposed to come home like this.

At twenty-four, the Navy SEAL has spent years leaving his family's cattle ranch for a life few people know much about. But after a mission goes wrong, indefinite leave sends him home with an uncertain future and more than a few things he'd rather not talk about.

Neither expects the other.

To Grace, her intimidating, blue-eyed new boss is an irritatingly attractive complication she has no intention of entertaining. To Kai, the stubborn new ranch hand with the perfectly trained dog and an answer for everything is a mystery he knows better than to pry into.

But long days working cattle turn into family dinners, teasing becomes friendship, and the bunkhouse Grace intended to hide in starts feeling dangerously close to home.

Kai never asks Grace to be less capable so he can protect her. Grace never asks Kai to forget the things he can't change. Instead, somewhere between early mornings in the saddle, quiet nights in the barn, and the family that slowly claims Grace as one of their own, they give each other something neither knew how badly they needed.

A place where being strong is a choice instead of a necessity.

And arms safe enough to finally rest in.