Bull Rush: A Dark Western Romance (The Quiet Horsemen, Book 1)

Hazel Rawdon thought she'd buried Ramsey Stockton right alongside her worst mistakes — until a courthouse document proves she never actually got free of him.

Years after the former pro football star turned convicted felon walked away from their small Texas town without a backward glance, Ramsey strolls back into Hazel's carefully rebuilt life with the audacity of a man who owns everything he touches. Including, it turns out, her. The divorce she thought was finalized never went through, and now he's dangling her freedom in front of her like a carrot on a wire fence — with one condition. Ninety days. Ninety days of playing his devoted, loving wife while he maneuvers through a high-stakes business deal that requires a respectable face beside his tarnished name.

The problem isn't just that Hazel despises him. It's that she's engaged to someone else, her beloved ranch inn is hemorrhaging money, and Ramsey's offer comes with a financial lifeline she can't afford to refuse. Trapped between resentment and ruin, Hazel agrees — certain she can keep her walls high enough to survive him a second time.

But Ramsey Stockton didn't survive prison, scandal, and a shattered career without learning how to read people, and he knows exactly why Hazel's hands shake when he stands too close.

Dark, dusty, and crackling with tension, *Bull Rush* is the second-chance western romance that proves some flames never needed a spark to reignite — they were always burning.