Reckon

She paints in chaos. He counts in pencil. Cole left them both a yellow envelope on the top shelf of his study and thirty days to figure out what the other one is for.

Sage Holt came to Quinn Creek for her sister's wedding and a summer of mountain light. She did not plan to inherit her dead brother's federal complaint against the most dangerous man in Sublette County. She did not plan to walk it across town to the only sheriff Cole ever trusted.

Boone Whittaker is twelve years older. Eight years divorced. Six years sworn to keep three of her brother's promises. He has loved Sage since she was nineteen and he has never said a single word about it.

She paints him on his porch without asking. He locks the gate and pours her coffee at six in the morning.

Some men keep your brother's secrets. Some men keep you.

He has thirty days to break two promises and keep one.

A contemporary western dark romance. Heat 5 of 5, age gap, brother's best friend, protector hero, slow burn with explicit open door, suspense. Book Two of The High Lonesome series.

Content warnings: explicit sexual content, on-page violence, kidnapping, references to past domestic violence and parental loss, firearms, federal legal proceedings.