One Inch From Ruin

She came for blood. He made her crave something far more dangerous.Mara Kincaid rides into Dead Man's Creek with death in her eyes and five names on her lips—the men who tortured and murdered her only brother. She's dressed in widow's black, armed with innocence and a revolver, and she has never pulled the trigger on a living soul.Yet.Caleb Wolfe is the town's shadow—a fixer who solves problems with bullets and silence. He doesn't save souls. He buries them. And from the moment Mara steps off that stagecoach, he sees her. Not the polished lady. Not the grieving sister.The killer underneath.He should stop her. Should put a bullet between her eyes before she can complete her mission. Instead, he finds himself following her through dark alleys, cornering her in closed rooms, letting her into his saloon office night after night—where the walls are thin and the secrets are thick and neither of them can breathe without feeling the other's presence like a hand around their throat.She needs him to find her targets.He needs her in ways that terrify him.Now they're locked in a game with no rules and no safety net:His fingers tracing her pulse during arguments to feel how fast he makes her heart race.Her straddling his lap to tend his wounds, his blood warm on her skin, his hands branding her thighs through layers of fabric.Him teaching her to shoot—his chest pressed against her back, his breath scorching her neck, his voice a rasp against her ear as he whispers about control and precision and all the things she does to him when she's not looking.Her pinned beneath him in a hidden storeroom, his hips cradling hers, both of them forgetting why they started fighting in the first place.The way he says her name—low and slow, like a curse, like a prayer, like ruin.They hover there. Always. One inch apart. One inch from the kiss that would shatter them both. One inch from crossing a line there is no coming back from.And every single moment, something interrupts.A gunshot. A revelation. One of them pulls away at the last second, chest heaving, eyes wild, leaving the other desperate and drowning.But the cruelest secret is yet to come:The man Mara wants dead?Caleb Wolfe's own brother.And Caleb has been protecting him for years—for reasons that will tear everything apart.When the truth bleeds out, there will be no room for hesitation. No space for almost. She'll have to choose: her revenge or her ruin. He'll have to decide: his blood or his obsession.One Inch From Ruin is a devastatingly intense slow-burn Western where the tension is the romance. Where every glance is a confession. Every touch is a compromise. Every breath held is a promise broken.