Rosie’s Diner sits in the shadows of the Grand Teton Mountain range, in the small town center of Saddle Creek, Wyoming. It’s where horse rancher Chase Montgomery first lays eyes on a new waitress’s bruised and swollen face, and beautiful green eyes; his first instinct is to kiss the bruises away.
Lauren McCray flees Michigan and heads west to escape another beating from her ex-boyfriend, Clint Jackson. When she sees him looking inside her car outside the diner where she works, she runs again. This time, jumping into the bed of a nearby pickup truck hauling a horse trailer.
Chase’s life is enriched when he pulls back the tarp in the bed of his pick-up and finds the green-eyed beauty from the diner. Lauren is running from something or someone, and Chase is compelled to protect her, but can he? Will he be in time?
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Samantha “Sam” Williams, aspiring wildlife photographer from New York City, disheveled from a challenging travel day, stumbles into Rosie’s Diner outside Jackson Hole, Wyoming and discovers the only available seat is next to a rugged, stone-faced cowboy, who greets her with a mesmerizing stare.
Elliott Bouchard, a world class outdoorsman trains therapy horses and devotes his life to teaching “city slickers” respect for the wilderness. After he meets Sam, he wants to protect her from the raw elements of the west but from someone who wants her dead.
When Sam’s life is threatened due to murderous evidence she innocently possesses, will Elliott knowingly put himself in harm’s way to save her?
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When Avri Lawrence’s high school sweetheart answers a calling to join the military, she’s left behind to nurse a broken heart and try to move on but when he returns years later, her attraction to him is stronger than ever. Now, she has a big secret, one she’s not ready to share.
Dillon Davidson, to prove himself, enlists in the Army but fails to predict the magnitude of required sacrifice. After he’s captured and tortured while on a mission, he escapes and returns home hoping for forgiveness.
The years of separation have taken their toll, testing the strength of their love. Will she take the risk of revealing her secret? Can he leave the horrors of battle behind?
