The Fence Cutter's Daughter
A Texas Range War Romance

About this book:

In the scorched heart of West Texas, the devil's rope is strangling the open range—and Clara Miller refuses to let her family die of thirst behind it. With her father's bad leg and a herd fading to bone, she walks the fence line at night, wire cutters in hand, ready to face down the Bar-K's patrolmen for a drink of water at Devil's Draw. She doesn't expect the man holding the lantern to be Wesley Kingman: the cattle baron's son, returned from St. Louis with a Winchester across his saddle and a grudge against the very wire his father profits from.

Caught between a badge he never wanted and a father who owns the law, Wes lets the Millers slip into the dark—then leaves a canteen at their feet and a dangerous promise: *Next time, it won't be me.* But as the range war explodes into ambushes, arson, and a county election bought with blood, Clara and Wes keep meeting in the wire-shadowed gullies where the law doesn't reach. Every stolen conversation cuts deeper than the barbs, binding a homesteader's daughter and a rancher's heir in a treason neither can afford.

With the Texas Rangers closing in and Marcus Kingman tightening his stranglehold on every watercourse, Clara must decide how far she'll ride for justice—and whether the man who holds her family's survival in his hands is a traitor to his name, or the only ally she has left. *The Fence Cutter's Daughter* is a searing enemies-to-lovers romance set against the brutal, beautiful reality of the 1880s fence wars, where love is the most dangerous claim you can stake.