Rider and Rose

Rose Bennett picked this town because it had one bar and one church and nobody who knew her married name. Eleven months of peace later, the phone starts ringing at 3 a.m. and her old wedding invitation arrives in the mail with her name on it, printed in a shop two towns over. So she walks into the bar and offers the biggest man in the room a job: stand at her gate, sit at her table, make sure the whole county sees her. Hatch Merrill has been watching her cross the property line for a year, and the answer to her offer is yes before she finishes the sentence. Then he runs the phone number, and the print shop, and finds out the danger is closer than either of them thought. Some things you can't fake. Some things you can't outride.