Where the River Bends

She was his first love at seventeen. Now she's the new vet - and the last woman he expected to need.

Dr. Ellie Nash, 34, left Willow Bend at eighteen and swore she'd never return. But when the town's aging veterinarian needs a successor, she comes back to buy his practice - straight into the orbit of Boone Callahan, 35, the boy she loved at seventeen, now a widowed single father of two on Montana's Copper Creek Ranch.

Boone has spent three years grieving his wife and keeping his heart locked down. Ellie has spent seventeen years running from her father's ghost. Between foaling emergencies, a county fair rodeo, haying season, and two kids who decide Ellie is family long before either adult will admit it, the old spark ignites into something neither can outrun.

But Meridian AgriCorp is circling the ranch's 1911 senior water right, and the fight for Copper Creek's future forces them both to decide what they're willing to risk - and what they're finally ready to keep.

Where the River Bends is Book 2 of the Copper Creek Ranch trilogy - a steamy second-chance Western romance with a widowed single dad, dual POV, small-town heart, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.

Copper Creek Ranch, Volume 2 — a Rusty Kane series. Digital edition (EPUB), delivered instantly after checkout. Adults only (18+).