He's on guard …with a woman and her protective canine When rancher Callum Hayes learns that Payton Reinert has returned to Cider Creek, Texas, to hide out from a killer, he opens his family home to her and her rescue dog. Though reluctant to offer his heart—broken by betrayal—he can't ignore his electrifying attraction to the vulnerable beauty and his desire to protect her. Even if stopping the monstrous killer means risking his life…

He must protect her Even from his own secrets… The minute Emerson Bennett arrives in Cider Creek, Texas, asking about her missing mother, she’s in someone’s lethal sights. And rancher Rory Hayes isn’t about to let her face his suddenly hostile hometown alone. An outsider since childhood, he knows the damage secrets can do—especially his own. But will helping this beautiful stranger uncover the truth be enough to keep them alive?

She needs help uncovering the truth… And one reluctant cowboy is her only hope. Finding a body on his property has unexpectedly complicated Tiernan Hayes’s life, and then he meets the woman being set up as the murderer. The former rodeo rider’s instincts scream that Melody Cantor has been targeted because of her family connections. Melody has no one to protect her, and Tiernan knows he shouldn’t get involved. But this Texan never walks away from a challenge, even one that could prove deadly.

Wherever she goes… Trouble is sure to follow Rancher Darren Pierce never imagined he’d see Reese Hayes again after all their years apart…especially not bound, gagged and bleeding on his Texas land. Busy raising his daughters, the widowed rancher knows he should just let the law protect Reese. Though her abandonment had devastated him, her memory loss is now putting her life in danger. How can he turn away this wounded woman from his past when so much is riding on her remembering the present?

The last woman he wants …is the only one he needs. On leave from the military, Dillen Bullard confronts his estranged father’s death—and is sure it was no accident, as the cops claim. It was murder. Unfortunately for the troubled army ranger, a woman from his past, the very rich Liz Hayes, compounds the mystery. Though he once thoroughly disliked the “princess,” now he’ll investigate with her despite her crucial memory loss. Before long, he’s saving her life. And risking his heart.