Ash Reckoning

It is 1896, and Nell Roberts has already survived the kind of tragedy that should have ended her.Fleeing a farm burned by vengeful men and the ghosts of a life she refuses to speak about, she arrives in Denver with little but her pride and takes a position with the Society—an investigative agency run by the disciplined, quietly formidable Levi Whittier. He is a widower with iron composure and secrets of his own. She is sharp, guarded, and far more dangerous than she appears.What begins as professional respect deepens into something neither of them expected—and neither of them is entirely prepared to survive.But the past does not stay buried.When violence strikes far too close to home, Nell is forced to confront the one truth she has spent a year outrunning: someone knows who she is. Someone has followed her. And this time, they are not aiming to miss.As winter closes in over the Rockies, loyalty is tested, secrets fracture, and love becomes both shield and vulnerability. To protect the people she has come to call family, Nell may have to face the one man she left alive—and the reckoning he has been patiently preparing.Some doors, once opened, do not close quietly. Read more