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Dark Horse

by C. R. Jane

A Montana ranch romance with a dark edge

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A Montana ranch romance with a dark edge

After a storm strands Sienna Blake in Blackwood, Montana, her plans to leave collide with rancher Sterling Hayes’s determination to keep her there. Their charged pursuit unfolds alongside the town’s history of serial killings and the disappearance of women in the surrounding wilderness, joining cowboy romance with a suspense thread. Sienna’s resistance to Sterling and his schemes gives the relationship a push-and-pull dynamic, while the danger around Blackwood raises the stakes beyond flirtation. The publisher description also signals adult romantic content and darker themes of obsession, violence, and threat.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Western romance set around a ranch and a small Montana town.
  • Readers who enjoy romance paired with a serial-killer or wilderness-disappearance suspense thread.
  • Adult readers comfortable with obsession, violence, and sexual content in a romance.

Themes

Western romanceObsession and controlSmall-town secretsThreat and violence

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After her messy divorce, Sienna Blake is done with men. She's trading her wreckage for a sun-drenched future in California until a violent Montana storm sends her car skidding off the road and straight into Blackwood. A town with more cows than people, a thriving fascination with its serial-killer history, and one dangerously attractive rancher who looks at her like she's already his.

Sterling Hayes didn't build his empire by letting go of what he wants. And the moment Sienna steps into his town, something inside him wakes up. He knows she doesn't belong here. He also knows he's not letting her leave. So he does what any reasonable, wildly unhinged man would do. He steals a few critical car parts and buys himself time. One month to convince her that Blackwood is exactly where she belongs―preferably wrapped up in his sheets, wearing nothing but his flannel.

Sienna refuses to be easy prey. She's stubborn, sharp-tongued, and far too smart for his dirty cowboy games. Between a mortifying wardrobe malfunction, a drunken bet involving a mechanical bull, and a series of ranch disasters that leave her bruised and furious, she's determined to prove she won't fall for him or this town.

But Blackwood has secrets that run deeper than flirtation and far darker than small-town charm. Women have been disappearing in the Montana wilderness, and everyone knows the land remembers blood. When the killer's attention turns toward Sienna, Sterling's careful restraint fractures. Because monsters recognize monsters. And the man watching her isn't just a rancher willing to steal car parts.

He's the kind of man who knows how to hunt.

Will Sienna escape Blackwood, or will she realize some traps are worth staying caught in--especially when the most dangerous thing in town is already obsessed with keeping her alive?

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