Stay for the Winter

A Small-Town Montana One Night Stand Cowboy Romance

von Alizée Silk

316 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

For a year this family has laid a place at supper for a man none of them had ever met. Plate, good spoon, the dead man's hat on the chair.On Tuesday he sat down in it.On Saturday night he had been in my bed.I'm the deputy in this county. I stand by the door. It's where I go. And for three months a year, when the narrows freeze and I drill the ice and plant the flags, the most dangerous thing on this lake answers to me.Cal Beckett came into the Raven at Last Call and drank water and crossed the room wrong. Straight. No cover. I asked where he was staying. He said he had a truck with a good bench seat and could be gone by morning.I asked whether that was a promise or a warning.He said it was a skill.I woke at six to an empty bed, which is what the skill meant. Then I stood in my kitchen and looked at half a cord of wood that had sat in a heap by my fence since July, stacked in rows so straight they looked surveyed, and a gate hinge that had screamed for two years greased quiet. No note. No number. A man who pays for things nobody was selling.By Tuesday morning I knew whose face he had.Six heirs, and his name is the sixth. All six signatures or the estate dies. The window opens in December and shuts the last Friday in January, and the dead man built that winter on purpose.The flags mean where I have been. Not where you may go. Thirty years of walking out first in the dark so this county can cross behind me, and nobody in a wall's life ever thinks to ask what it costs to be leaned on well.Now there's a man with a gray truck and a folder, and two names priced on one sheet. His signature and my rosters. One purchase.And my father has put it plainer than that. The roster or the man. Before the nineteenth.Being gone by morning is the whole trick of him.Being the thing that holds is the whole trick of me.One of us is going to have to stop.Stay for the Winter is a small-town cowboy romance: a fire-crew drifter with a dead man's face, the deputy who runs the county's ice, one night before either of them knew, dual POV, a slow burn that pays off, open-door heat that takes its time, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Dry banter, high tension, no third-act misunderstanding. Perfect for readers of Devney Perry, Lyla Sage and Elsie Silver.Every Sorrel Lake Ranch book stands alone. The family's fourteen years run through all six.Come for a week. Stay for a life.

• ISBN: 9798172620546
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.09.2026
• Größe: 203 x 133 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp