Hush
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She came home to bury her brother. She stayed because of the man who refused to let her leave.
Maren Holt arrived at High Lonesome Ranch with a four year old on her hip and two suitcases. The man on the porch said four words. She knew within an hour she should not have come.
Wade Calloway has worked her brother's ranch since the day Cole died. He keeps three secrets locked in a foreman cabin nobody else enters. The first is what really happened to Cole. The second is what Cole wrote down about his sister in the months before. The third is a kind of want Wade has carried in silence for nine years.
Some men talk a woman into wanting them. Wade Calloway just stopped speaking.
She does not yet know what is buried at High Lonesome. By the time she does, she will already be his.
Some promises are meant to stay buried.
HUSH is a slow burn contemporary western romance with a silent protector hero, a single mother heroine, found family and a dead brother's secret that should have stayed in the ground. Heat five of five, age gap, brother's best friend, off the page violence, on the page wanting. Book One of The High Lonesome series.
Content warnings: explicit sex, references to past domestic violence, grief, firearms, mention of fatal ranch accident.
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Scarlett Vale writes dark contemporary romance for women who crave obsession, danger plus devastating love. Her debut series The Marchetti Dynasty pairs the elegance of Penelope Douglas with the cinematic intensity of Ana Huang. She lives in Amsterdam with one black cat plus a small careful collection of vintage fountain pens. When she is not writing she is reading every BookTok dark romance she can find, drinking espresso the way her late grandmother taught her in 2007, plus listening to old Sicilian music on Sundays at noon. Cruel Vow is the first book in a four book series. Cruel King follows in 2027.
