Thunderhead

He bought the valley. She's going to make him give it back.

Ellie Kellaway has never lost an argument she cared about. Fresh out of vet school and working at her brother's clinic in the tiny Australian town of Wattle Creek, she has spent her life keeping the people she loves, and the land they love, in one piece.

Then a Texan walks into the only pub in town.

Grant Holloway has a Houston fortune, a very good suit and a cowboy hat he is not entitled to. He has also spent the winter quietly buying up the valley, and his plans for a luxury spa resort come with a license to pump the old spring that feeds Wattle Creek. Ellie knows the name. His family's company once tried to dig a mine under her brother's ridge.

So she objects. Formally. With the town's best lawyer beside her and a hearing set for February.

There's just one problem. To prove the spring and the creek are the same water, Ellie needs access to his land, and Grant's terms are simple: every Sunday, 6 a.m., all summer, he's there. Also, his inherited old mare needs a vet, and the big Texan is quietly terrified of horses.

Ellie is going to win. She always does. But the man she's fighting isn't the man she expected, and when the summer storms roll in over the ridge, winning might cost her more than losing ever could.

For fans of Elsie Silver, Lyla Sage and Paisley Hope: an enemies-to-lovers small-town romance. Book 4 in the Wattle Creek Station series. Each book can be read as a standalone. Dual POV, open door, HEA guaranteed.