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The Cowboy's Unexpected Family: A Clean Small Town Found Family Romance

The Cowboy's Unexpected Family: A Clean Small Town Found Family Romance

Cross, Jefferson

Paperback

Series: Pine Ridge Hearts, Book 6

Romance

ISBN13: 9798254893950
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 3 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He's spent two years being good at leaving. She's spent three making sure no one can matter again. Neither of them planned on the light next door.

Wade Mercer built his life on things that hold - fence lines, routine, distance. Eleven years in the Army, a marriage that didn't survive his coming home, and a son in Colorado he calls every Sunday and hasn't seen in two years. The ranch is enough. It has to be.

Then the Calloway place lights up, and the widow who inherited it is out in the dark trying to start a dead generator.

Hannah Brooks didn't come to Pine Ridge for help. She came to give her seven-year-old daughter a home that isn't temporary - and a lawyer in Casper is telling her the house may not be hers to keep. She knows exactly what it costs to let someone matter. She's not paying it again.

But the fence between the properties needs work, and the quiet man on the other side keeps showing up without being asked. Wood stacked before the cold. A gate rehung. His truck already running when the school calls.

Somewhere between the repairs and the shared meals, a third plate starts appearing at Hannah's table - and Lily, who notices everything, stops asking whose it is.

Then a seven-year-old asks Wade to show up for her, and the reason he can't is the one thing he's spent two years not saying.

The heartfelt final book in the Pine Ridge Hearts series: a clean, slow-burn small-town romance about a veteran learning to stay, a widow learning to let him, and the family that forms before anyone finds the words. Reads as a standalone.

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