Capturing the Cowboy (Whispering Winds Ranch, 1)

### Whispering Winds Ranch, Book 1

He's everything she's been hired to destroy—and everything she can't stop thinking about.

When urban developer Sloane Merritt arrives at Whispering Winds Ranch with a briefcase full of buyout papers, she expects resistance. What she doesn't expect is Cole Rafferty—stubborn, sun-weathered, and infuriatingly certain that a woman in heels has no business standing on his land. He's wrong about her. About almost everything. Except the part where she's there to bulldoze three generations of his family's legacy into a luxury resort complex.

Cole has seen plenty of suits come and go, dangling dollar signs at ranchers too tired to fight back. Sloane is different, though he'd rather rope a rattlesnake than admit it. She asks questions no developer should care about. She stays longer than any of them do. And she looks at his horses like she's remembering something she lost a long time ago.

The more time they spend arguing across his kitchen table and riding fence lines in furious silence, the harder it becomes to remember whose side they're each on.

Sloane came to Whispering Winds to close a deal.

She's terrified she's about to lose something far more valuable instead.

*Capturing the Cowboy* is a slow-burn, small-town romance about two people who want completely different things—until they don't.