Under the Hot Iron
A Western Romance

About this book:

In1886 Wyoming Territory, Maeve Sterling wears the only silver brand-inspector's badge pinned to a woman's chest—and every cattle baron from Cheyenne to the Powder River wants it gone. When she catches Silas Vance's outfit running a blotched brand through the Union Pacific yards, she impounds two hundred head of the most powerful rancher's cattle, igniting a war that reaches all the way to the governor's table. Her only witness is Cal Mercer, Vance's enigmatic new range boss: a former Texas Ranger with amber eyes, a Texas drawl, and secrets burned as deep as the altered hides Maeve uncovers.

Cal claims he's clean, but he rides for the enemy, and in a territory where justice is bought by the acre, Maeve can't afford to trust a man who sleeps under Vance's roof. Yet every confrontation crackles with a dangerous current neither can deny—whether they're clashing in a stockyard alley or sharing whiskey in a rail office while the telegraph ticks out warnings. As winter closes in and Vance's hired guns begin circling, Maeve must decide if the heat between them is a trap or the only truth in a land built on lies.

*Under the Hot Iron* sears the classic Western with white-hot romance and razor-sharp suspense. For readers who crave a heroine who commands the page as fiercely as she commands a corral, a hero whose loyalty is the story's central mystery, and a landscape where love and duty ride the same razor wire—this is the range war you've been waiting for.