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The Sheriff's Secret: A Clean Small Town Protector Romance
Paperback
Series: Pine Ridge Hearts, Book 4
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He has protected Pine Ridge for years. Now the one secret he cannot outrun may cost him everything.
Sheriff Tom Martinez has always been the man Pine Ridge depends on.
Steady. Capable. Fiercely protective.
But behind the badge, Tom is fighting a battle no one else can see. His vision is failing. The job he loves is slipping out of his control. And the harder he tries to hide the truth, the closer he comes to losing the town, the family, and the future he has sacrificed everything to protect.
Then FBI Special Agent Sofia Reyes arrives.
Sofia has her own reasons for coming to Pine Ridge - a federal evaluation, a dangerous trafficking investigation, and a promise tied to the husband she lost in the same war that shaped Tom. She is sharp, guarded, and far too good at seeing what people try to hide.
Especially Tom.
As federal scrutiny tightens and a criminal threat reaches deeper into Pine Ridge, Tom and Sofia are forced into an uneasy partnership. What begins as professional tension soon becomes something neither of them expected: trust, tenderness, and the terrifying possibility of being known completely.
Tom knows Sofia deserves the truth.
He also knows the truth could cost him his badge - and the woman he never meant to need.
The Sheriff's Secret is a clean small-town romantic suspense novel about hidden wounds, protector hearts, found family, and the courage it takes to let love see you clearly.
Return to Pine Ridge - where love is steady, danger is close, and even the strongest hearts sometimes need someone beside them.
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