The Secret at Willow Creek Ranch
A Romantic Suspense Novel

About this book:

Callie Hayes didn't come to Willow Creek Ranch for the scenery. She came because her car died, her bank account held forty-seven dollars, and the classified ad promised room, board, and zero questions asked. The forty-thousand-acre spread in the Wyoming wilderness delivers on two counts—the isolation is absolute, the work is brutal—but the "no questions" clause evaporates the moment she meets the owner. Jace Vance doesn't live in the main house so much as haunt it, taking meals on a shadowed porch, forbidding anyone upstairs, and watching the tree line with the coiled stillness of a man who knows the dark has teeth.

Hank, the grizzled foreman, makes the rules clear: cook, clean, keep your head down, and never, ever linger where Vance can see you. But Callie has never been good at looking away. She notices the scar bisecting his knuckles, the way he reads the wind like a threat assessment, the single light burning in his study long after the ranch sleeps. And when the first dead phone line cuts the valley off from the world, followed by a stranger asking questions Hank refuses to answer, Callie realizes the job description left out the most important detail: she isn't just the new housekeeper. She's the only witness.

As a summer storm traps them in a canyon with no exit, the past Vance fled finally catches up—and it brought reinforcements. Now the woman with nothing left to lose and the man who gave up everything to disappear must decide if trust is a liability or their only weapon. Because at Willow Creek, the secrets buried under the sagebrush don't stay buried. They hunt.