Redbud Ridge: Defiance

Peyton Clarke doesn’t rattle.

She runs the Clarke family resort with precision and calm, handles difficult guests with a steady smile, and weathers family crises with her chin up and her voice even. She’s been doing it for years. She’s good at it.

But when she steps outside and finds one of her resort cabins burning, and a gas can on the ground in front of it, she understands exactly what she’s looking at.

A message.

Holloway has pivoted. And her resort is the new target.

Knox has been on-site since before the fire. Former special operations, private security, and the most infuriating man she’s ever had to work alongside. He’s right about the threat. He was right about the cameras. He’s probably right about most things, which makes him extremely difficult to argue with.

She does it anyway.

Because there’s a difference between understanding the danger and letting someone manage you through it. Peyton has the full picture now, her brother finally made sure of that, and she’s going to handle her resort, her guests, and her own choices the way she has always handled them. Knox can work with her or around her.

He won’t work through her.

Except the closer the threat gets, the closer Knox gets. And somewhere between the standoffs and the arguments and the moment she stopped wanting him to leave, the line between protecting herself from Holloway and protecting herself from him started to blur.

Both of them are right. Both of them are stubborn. Neither of them expected this.

Redbud Ridge: Defiance is the second book in the Redbud Ridge series - an enemies to lovers, romantic suspense set on an Oklahoma horse ranch. Each book guaranteed with a HEA. Will be FREE in Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback.