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Holding What Heals
Paperback
Series: Russell Creek Ranch, Book 2
Publisher: H. Thorne
Published: Sep 30 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Dr. Lena Hart comes to Russell Creek Ranch for one horse: Mercy, a dressage mare with a torn suspensory and a history of being moved when she should have been still.
Senior horseman Wade Carver does not talk over Lena's protocols. He waits. He watches. The mare starts to breathe again. So does Lena, until she remembers why she built walls after a partner who used her license as a leash.
Rehab cases pile up. Dinners happen. Boundaries hold, then soften, because Wade never treats her yes as a given. When colic nearly takes Mercy, the ranch crew proves no one has to carry the night alone. Then Lena's ex refers a problem horse-and walks back into her life with an apology she is no longer required to accept.
Holding What Heals is a slow-burn western romance about consent, competence, and the kind of partnership that leaves a woman more herself, not less. Mercy learns to be an easy pleasure mount. Lena learns that love is not a trap if she chooses the gate.
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