In 1883 Wyoming Territory, Clara Bellamy runs her late husband's ranch alone, hardened by grief and the weight of a land no one believes she can hold. When a wounded stranger collapses near her fence line, Clara reluctantly brings him into her home-and her life changes forever.

The man is Colt Avery, a former bounty hunter on the run after turning in a corrupt sheriff with dangerous friends. Quiet, haunted, and lethal, Colt has been hunted ever since. Clara should send him on his way. Instead, she stitches him up, offers him shelter, and begins to feel something she thought died with her husband: the flicker of trust.

As Colt heals, the two form an uneasy alliance, then something deeper-something tender and wild. But Colt's past soon catches up to them in the form of Lucius Bray, a vengeful outlaw with a cruel grudge and a small army of hired guns. When the ranch is attacked, Clara and Colt are forced to defend not just the land-but each other.

What begins as survival turns into reckoning. Clara must decide if she's willing to fight again-not just for her home, but for a future with the only man who ever made her feel alive again. And Colt must face his past one last time to earn the only thing he's ever truly wanted: a place to belong.

Together, they'll discover that peace isn't given-it's fought for.