Falling for the Coal Baron

Ansel Reeve has cut coal for seven years and buried three brothers doing it. Then the Number Four changes hands and a young owner comes out from Philadelphia, and the men send Ansel up the hill to hand him the list. Cornelius Wexler is twenty-eight, has inherited the worst mine in the company's portfolio, and isn't the fool anyone expected. He is worse: he's honest. He shuts the seam down when Ansel shows him the gas pockets. He refuses to sell. He stays. For a year of hard winters, company men, and strike votes, Ansel and Con fall into each other the way men in dangerous places do — quietly, and in a way neither of them can say out loud. When Con's own board sends men to put him on a train back east, one of them is standing at the depot. A dark MM historical western romance about a mine, a strike, and a man who didn't get on the train.