“What if the only man who ever protected you was also the man you feared most?” She was sold at auction like livestock, a woman who’d killed her husband in self-defense. When the scarred mountain man bought her with a bloody sheriff’s badge, she braced for the worst. He gave her his coat, his bed, his silence. She pushed him, shoved him, begged him to hit her so she could stop waiting for the blow. Then seven riders came for vengeance — and the woman who’d been bought and sold her whole life had to decide if she’d hide in the cellar or fight beside the only man who’d ever shown her kindness.
“What if the only man who ever protected you was also the man you feared most?” She was sold at auction like livestock, a woman who’d killed her husband in self-defense. When the scarred mountain man bought her with a bloody sheriff’s badge, she braced for the worst. He gave her his coat, his bed,…
