The Farrier's Fortune
A Rivals-to-Lovers Romance

About this book:

Maeve Penn has spent fifteen years reading hooves like books—every crack, every angle, every whisper of lameness written in iron and dust. She doesn't need a radiograph to tell her that Dr. Nicholas Vance's fancy wedge pads will trap Vermont mud and ruin the horses she's kept sound through four brutal winters. He calls it evidence-based medicine; she calls it malpractice waiting to happen. When he steals her biggest client with a tablet full of glowing graphs and a smile that doesn't reach his grey eyes, Maeve marches straight into his mahogany-and-glass clinic to draw a line in the gravel.

Nicholas Vance didn't flee a high-pressure Boston practice to wage turf wars with a farrier in a forty-year-old Ford. But Maeve Penn—stubborn, sharp-tongued, and infuriatingly right about the horses—is the only thing in Windham County that doesn't fit his protocols. Every clash at the anvil, every stolen stall, every midnight emergency call drags them deeper into territory neither expected: the charged silence between hammer strikes, the coffee shared at dawn, the terrifying realization that the woman who threatens his professional pride might be the only one who understands the weight he carries.

In a valley where the ground freezes hard and trust is earned one hoof at a time, two iron-willed professionals will discover that the strongest welds come from the hottest fires—and that sometimes, the most dangerous thing to shoe is your own heart.