She has planned four hundred weddings. She has never believed in a single one of them.

Emma Blackstock builds other people’s happy endings for a living, and she is very good at it. She reads a room in ten minutes flat, she has never been wrong about a marriage yet, and she drives home alone from every last reception without a scratch on her. Her mother taught her that much, over six husbands and a lot of moving boxes.

Then a job takes her to a dude ranch in Bear Valley, Texas, where a goat eats her luggage tag, six dogs knock the dignity clean out of her, and a quiet cowboy carries her garment bag up a gravel drive and tells her he keeps the books.

Joe Watkins does keep the books. He also flew medevac in the war, and came home and built himself a careful life on one solid principle: never want a thing you cannot do without. He gives Emma a month before she is gone.

There is a wedding to build out of bare Texas ground, and somebody is quietly working to make sure it never happens. The longer Emma stays, the harder it gets to keep her guard up, and the more she has to face the one question she has spent her whole life outrunning. What happens to a woman who does not believe in forever when a whole family sets a place for her at the table.

Cowboy Elite: Joe is a sweet, closed-door, small-town romance with a quiet wounded hero, a city woman who does not believe in marriage, a meddling grandpa in a red Corvette, a found family of cowboy brothers, and a happily-ever-after you can count on. Book 3 in the Cowboy Elite series. Each book can be read on its own.

They’re strong, silent, kind and lethal. They are Warriors. Cowboy heroes and the women who heal them.