Holding the Autumn Range

Mara Bell is a widow with a target on her back. Her ranch, Bell Creek, is the prize her ruthless neighbor Silas Creede will stop at nothing to seize. With fences being cut and her reputation under fire, Mara faces a choice: lose her legacy or strike a deal with the only man she can trust.

Gideon Hale is a man of the earth, steady and formidable. When he proposes a temporary marriage of convenience to protect their combined borders, he offers Mara a shield, not a savior. But Mara is no damsel; she demands a strict legal contract to ensure her land-and her heart-remain her own.

As a brutal winter storm traps them together at Hale Crossing, the cold outside is nothing compared to the heat rising between them. The lines of their agreement begin to blur as respect turns to desire and a partnership of necessity transforms into a bond of blood and bone. But with Creede's traps closing in and a violent confrontation looming in town, Mara and Gideon must decide if they are just holding the range-or if they are finally ready to hold onto each other.

H. Thorne delivers a sweeping, slow-burn Western romance where the fiercest battles aren't fought with guns, but with the courage to be vulnerable.