High Desert Bride

The land is dying of drought. So is she, of loneliness.Cora Barlow has run Las Mesas Ranch alone for three years, watching her wells fall foot by foot while a land consolidator circles with a buyout offer and a deadline. What she needs is a ranch hand. What she hires is Levi Hartman, a quiet drifter who hears a failing pump a pasture away, works like the country itself taught him, and keeps his past behind his teeth.Levi is a cougar shifter, exiled from his leap for a mercy he will not explain, and Las Mesas is the first place that has ever felt like it could be his. As the aquifer drops and the pressure turns ugly, Cora learns what he is, and keeping his secret becomes the second herd she tends. Keeping the ranch becomes the first.A slow burn borderlands romance about water, work, and coming back to life.