Wild Country

June Blackwell has ten business days to save her ranch. The only man who can help is the Rourke everyone fears.

A sealed land claim can cut Blackwater off from the winter water that keeps its herd alive. June knows dirty paper when she sees it, but this time the signature she needs belongs to Elias Boone Rourke: stock-road outlaw, bad family blood, violent reputation, and the last man a Blackwell should ever marry.

Eli wants nothing from Blackwater except protection from the men turning his name into evidence. June offers him a courthouse marriage instead: his inherited claim locked to her ranch, her name standing between him and a cell, both of them close enough to make Bitter Creek stare.

The marriage is supposed to be paper.

Then Eli puts his hand at June's back, calls her his wife like a warning, and gives the bargain teeth.

If the alliance breaks, June loses the water, the herd, and the authority she bled to earn. If Eli runs, he leaves her alone with men who know how to turn law into a weapon.

Bitter Creek wanted a fake marriage.

It got a war with a wedding ring.

Wild Country is Bitter Creek, Book 3: a spicy neo-western romantic suspense with marriage of convenience, a dangerous Rourke cowboy, a Blackwell dynasty heroine, forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers heat, touch-her-and-die protection, land-deed danger, and a guaranteed HEA. Complete romance. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Adult. 18+.