Kristin Ellison has spent eleven years married to a man whose money could solve anything—except the fact that he never saw what was happening to his own wife.
In February, while Blake is in Chicago,
a stranger comes up the drive and walks through the kitchen door.
Kristin is alone with him for forty minutes. She comes out with a hand that will no longer close, which for a veterinarian isn’t a scar.
It’s the end of a career.
In April, she learns Blake had been warned three times.
A stranger had written to his office, each letter naming Kristin. The last included their address. All three were logged and marked
no action
by Blake’s chief of staff—the same woman he’d been telling everything since December.
Blake never touched her. That isn’t what Kristin can’t forgive. He was warned. And he chose not to know. Kristin is gone within a week.
What she builds instead is her father’s work: cattle calls at four in the morning, nine acres and a pole shed on a county road.
The hand that ended one career becomes the hand she uses to build another.
By the time Blake begins dismantling the machinery that made not knowing possible, Kristin has built a life she could happily live until she’s eighty.
If he wants back into it, he’ll have to earn his place.
A ranching second-chance romance with no cheating, a betrayed wife, a groveling husband, and a hard-won HEA
