Ellie

I kissed a cowboy on a rooftop. Green eyes. Rough hands. The second he told me his name, I had him thrown out of the bar.

Nathan Callahan. One name, and everything I'd buried for ten years clawed back to the surface. For a month, I tried to scrub away the memory of how he kissed me back, like he’d been starving for it. Turns out he had.

I swore I'd never return to Chestnut Falls. Then Mama got sick.

Now Nathan is everywhere—the general store, my volunteer shift, every Saturday in worn boots, being so damn decent it makes me want to scream. He thinks he can be gentle enough to earn my trust, like I’m one of his skittish horses.

His family has a secret that’s been eating me alive. He has no idea I know… or what I did because of it.

I hate him. I want him. And I’ll do whatever it takes to keep him away.

Wanting him isn't just a bad idea. It's a betrayal of everything I came home to protect.

He’s still waiting. And I’m still pretending that isn’t the most dangerous thing about him.

A steamy small-town cowboy romance where she hates him, he’s loved her for years, and loving each other could ruin everything.

🥀 one-sided enemies-to-lovers

💔 she hates him

❤️‍🔥 he’s been in love with her for ten years

🏹 forbidden love

🌄 small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains

🐴 swoony cowboy & ER nurse

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