Thorn's Stand

He came home to outrun his past—not to fall for the woman about to dig it up.
She followed the data to save dying children—and it led straight to him.
Now they'll have to choose—his blood or her evidence.

THORN
I don't do relationships. I show up, I do the work, I keep my walls where they belong. Then Gisela Carrow arrives at Sangre Vista—brilliant, awkward, impossible to ignore—and the heat between us is something I can't outrun. When she starts asking questions about the land I grew up on, about sick children and poisoned water, I tell myself I'm protecting her. Then my father shows up after twenty-five years, and he knows things about her investigation that he shouldn't. I've spent my whole life believing I'm nothing like my old man. Now I have to prove it.

GISELA
I save children for a living. I'm good at the science, the data, the fight no one else wants. What I'm not good at is keeping my hands steady when Nash Roseman walks into a room. Four pediatric cancer cases from one region in eighteen months, and the trail leads to land he knows—land his grandmother feared. The closer I get to the source, the more dangerous the questions become, and the man I'm falling for carries a last name that keeps showing up where it shouldn't.