Chasing The Dragon

Irene Barley left Red Holler five years ago with a broken nose, a broken heart, and every intention of never returning.

Then Stacy Wilder, the woman who raised Irene after her mother's death, calls for help. Her memory is slipping, the family mercantile is falling behind, and pride has finally given way to fear. Irene abandons her empty relationship and heads home, telling herself she is returning for Stacy.

Then Boone Wilder walks through the mercantile door.

Boone is no longer the reckless boy Irene loved. He is a hard working cattleman with a temper, a black cowboy hat, and an addiction he has learned to hide behind long hours, easy charm, and convincing lies. He can handle a bad cow, back a trailer in one attempt, and work for days without sleep...but meth, Percocet, and alcohol have followed him into every corner of his life.

Irene knows loving Boone once nearly destroyed her. Boone knows she is the only woman who ever saw the man beneath everything he became.

Neither of them intends to begin again.

But in Red Holler, the past is never as buried as people pretend and some kinds of love are just as powerful, reckless, and difficult to escape as any drug.

Chasing the Dragon is a raw second chance romance about addiction, family, desire, and loving someone without possessing the power to save them.

Mature themes: substance addiction, alcohol use, violence, explicit sexual content, controlling relationships, and pregnancy.