Dust and Desire

<p><strong>A quiet investor. A younger cowboy with fire in his eyes. One summer in Sagebrush that changes everything.</strong></p><p><strong>Dustin</strong><br>I came to Sagebrush to start over.</p><p>After a messy divorce and a coming out I should've done years ago I left behind the city the boardroom and the version of myself I no longer recognized. I invested in the Baker Ranch helped build their rodeo arena and tucked myself away in the far end of the property hoping peace would follow.</p><p>It didn't.</p><p>Everyone around me has someone. And while I smile and play along during town events and holiday dinners the truth is-I'm tired of being the one who always goes home alone.</p><p>Then Alex walks into my life like he owns the place.</p><p>He's cocky charming built like trouble and wears his cowboy hat like it's a crown. He calls me city boy with a wink that lights me on fire. And when he catches me skinny-dipping in the creek he doesn't look away.</p><p>Now I'm falling fast and hard for a man who makes me feel like I've been missing something my whole life.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Alex</strong><br>I don't settle. Can't. I've spent my life drifting from one ranch to the next never staying long enough to get hurt. But Sagebrush feels different.</p><p>He feels different.</p><p>Dustin Corvus is older steady the kind of man who knows how to listen-and how to make me fall apart with just a look. He's quiet strength wrapped in slow-burning heat and every time I try to keep my distance I end up wanting him more.</p><p>But if I stay the past might catch up to me. And if I go I might break something I never knew I needed.</p><p><em><strong>Dust and Desire</strong></em> is a magnetic achingly intimate romance between a guarded cowboy who never stays and the quiet man who makes him want to. With scorching heat heart-deep emotion and the kind of slow-burn tension that will leave readers breathless this is a small-town love story you'll feel in your bones.</p><p>Perfect for fans of age gap opposites attract found family and second chances under the wide Texas sky.</p><p><strong>Get ready to fall in love with Sagebrush all over again</strong></p>