When single attorney Steven Creed becomes the guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Taking care of little Matt and fixing up his run-down ranch house with its old barn loosens something tightly wound inside him. But when Steven takes on the pro bono
defense of a local teen, he meets his match in the opposing counsel—beautiful, by-the-book county prosecutor Melissa O’Ballivan. It’ll take one grieving little boy, a sweet adopted dog and a woman who never expected to win any man’s heart to make this Creed in Stone Creek know he’s truly found home.
Conner Creed knows exactly who he is: a hard-working rancher carrying on his uncle’s legacy in Lonesome Bend, Colorado. Maybe a small-town cowboy’s life isn’t his dream, but he owes the man who took him in as a kid. Then the wild twin brother he’s been estranged from for years shows up. The timing of Brody’s return couldn’t be worse. Conner has just met Tricia
McCall, a beautiful woman who knows what it’s like to live someone else’s dreams. Brody betrayed Conner’s trust all those years ago—riding out of town with his girlfriend. Now Brody’s threatening to put down roots in Lonesome Bend, and Conner vows there will be hell to pay if Brody so much as tips his hat at Tricia.
Rough-and-tumble rodeo cowboy Brody Creed likes life on the move and on his own terms—until a chance encounter with his long-estranged twin brother brings him “home” for the first time in years. Suddenly Brody is in Creed territory—a restless bad boy among family with deep ties to the land and each other. And a secret past haunts him as he tries to put down
roots. Carolyn Simmons is looking for Mr. Right in Lonesome Bend, as the tick-tock of her biological clock gets ever louder. Then she falls for gorgeous Brody Creed, the opposite of everything she thinks she wants. But as fate would have it, taming his wild heart just might end up giving both of them everything they need.
