The Rancher's Reluctant Bride

The Bar Seven sold at auction to a man nobody in town had met. Wren Halliday has worked this valley since she was fourteen. She has no deed, no savings, and no intention of leaving — not for the bank, and not for the soft-handed stranger who shows up in a hired truck with no boots. Colton Reyes built a fortune in Denver and spent it buying back the land his family lost. He wants to restore the watershed. He wants to tear down the fences. Wren's cabin is in the way. He offers her wages. She names a stake. He offers her a marriage that would make her legal owner of the ground she's worked her whole life. She refuses to be a loophole. So she writes her own terms — water rights in her name, cabin excluded, filed by his lawyer — and marries him in the tack room beside the saddle soap. It isn't a love story. It's a contract. Until June.