Caleb Mercer is preparing to sell one of the best pieces of Red Hollow Ranch just to keep the rest of it alive. Drought, falling cattle prices, rising freight costs, and relentless feed bills have convinced him that the ranch simply cannot carry itself anymore.
Then Nora Hale, the newest worker on the place, notices something no one else has been measuring.
The feed disappears faster than the cattle could possibly be eating it.
What begins with a few sacks on a ranch scale soon forces Caleb to question years of invoices, old business habits, and the supplier he has trusted to keep Red Hollow running. But discovering where the money is going is only the beginning. If Nora is right, proving it could cost the ranch the very supply line keeping the herd alive.
As the numbers become harder to ignore, Caleb must decide how much he is willing to risk on the judgment of a woman almost everyone still sees as temporary help.
A slow-burn Western romance about earned trust, quiet competence, economic survival, and two people learning that saving a ranch may require more than working harder. Sometimes it requires finally measuring what everyone else assumed was true.

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