Release Date: July 23, 2026

*Books Will Ship at the end of August*

*While Supplies Last*

This illustrated cover is an INDIE bookstore exclusive. It also has colored inside front and back covers with character artwork. The formatting will also include a note to say it’s the Indie Bookstore exclusives.Pre-Order Incentives:

• Couple artwork (By @poethelan)
• Signed bookplate 
• Necklace (Gold Chain, Letter A to match the cover) 

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I've spent my whole life riding things that want to kill me. But the most dangerous ride of my life? Chasing the woman who broke my heart across a war zone to bring her home.

Ace Sterling

Six years. That's how long I've been texting a woman who won't reply. Every birthday. Every Christmas. Every night I'm drunk enough to be honest and sober enough to hit send.

Harper Jones. My Goldie. She stole my heart, ground it to dust and then drove it to Los Angeles without even looking back. 

At least, that's what I thought.

Turns out, she's been protecting my family from the shadows this whole time. She loves me in silence and lets me think she doesn't.

When she walks back into New Falls with secrets that could ignite a war between two of the most dangerous mafia families in the country, it feels like the second chance I've been desperate for.

Then I find her tied up in my cousin's barn with another man's ring on her finger.

I don't buy it. Won’t. Because there is no me without my soulmate, and the second she stops loving me, my heart will stop beating. So I hold on, the way I always do. Eight seconds at a time.

But this town is crawling with enemies I don't see coming. Alliances that aren't what they seem. And someone is pulling strings that none of us can trace until it's too late.

So I’m forced to let the woman I love walk down the aisle toward another man. But that isn’t the end of our story…

That’s the declaration of war.  

One phone call changes everything. No words. Just the sound of her breathing.

And I know. She's not just calling for herself anymore.

They say second chances don't come around twice. They're right.

This is our third. And it's the last one either of us will need, because she will always be the only woman I’ll ever love. 

They think because I ride bulls, I'm just a cowboy. But every Sterling has a line. Cross it, and the cowboy disappears. What's left ain't ranching. It's reckoning.

TROPES:

Dark mafia x cowboy romance

Pro bull rider & mafia underboss MMC

Criminal journalist FMC 

Childhood sweethearts 

Second Chance  

Secret Baby