The Lady Brand Inspector
A Wyoming Territory Romance

About this book:

In 1880s Wyoming Territory, the law on the open range isn't written in lead—it's burned into hide and recorded in ink. Cassidy Reed is the only woman who reads both languages fluently. As the territory's sharpest brand inspector, she wields a ledger and a magnifying glass with more authority than most men carry in a six-shooter, catching rustlers who alter marks and barons who think money buys immunity. When Luke Callahan arrives at her railhead siding shipping prime beef under a clean bill of sale, Cassidy finds a stolen brand buried beneath his—one that leads straight to the most powerful cattleman in the territory.

Luke Callahan didn't ride three hundred miles from the Sweetwater to lose his lease over a clerk's suspicion. But the more he watches Cassidy work—fearless atop a chute catwalk, exacting in a world that rewards the crooked—the more he realizes she's the only thing standing between his fresh start and a conspiracy that stretches from the canyon draws to the Association's boardroom in Cheyenne. They're natural adversaries: a rancher fighting for his foothold, an inspector bound by the book. But when Vance Garner's riders start circling the impounded steers and the territorial marshal shows unexpected interest in Cassidy's findings, the book might be the only shield either of them has left.

*The Lady Brand Inspector* delivers a fresh, gritty Western romance where the heroine's competence is her superpower, the history is worn leather-real, and the slow-burn tension between a woman who trusts ink and a man who trusts iron will keep you turning pages long after the coals die down. For fans of Sarah McCarty, Joanna Lowell, and anyone who loves a West where justice is measured in steady hands and true marks.