Swan Hearts (Plum Valley Cowboys Book 4)

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Longtime friends. Blurred lines. And the secret that threatens it all.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jake</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There are three things my best friend Nash Dupree and I are good at. Fishing. Fighting. And another F-word that sure isn't friendship.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nash has been by my side for the last thirty years but despite our long complicated history there are some things the town bartender still keeps close to his chest. And now those secrets are threatening to tear us apart.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>That friend of mine may be running from his feelings and tackling ghosts only he can see but I refuse to let him run away from </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>me</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> just because he's scared.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I love that stubborn fool and after everything we've been through I'm not giving him up without a fight.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nash</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Since the moment I set eyes on Jake Hanson he's had his hook in me. No matter how hard I tried to keep the lines of our friendship from being muddled I was powerless to resist his pull.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But the big-hearted veterinarian deserves more than I can give. And if he found out the truths I've been hiding he'd see me as another pet project to doctor and mend.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I never meant for us to get so tangled together and if we could go back to those simple days spent fishing out on my dock oblivious to what the future had in store maybe I could do things differently. Maybe then I wouldn't keep hurting Jake.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But I can't erase my past mistakes. All I can do now is make things right. And hopefully when I'm long gone from Plum Valley Texas Jake will finally understand the truth.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>That he's better off without me and always has been.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Swan Hearts is a friends-to-lovers romance spanning three decades and told in dual alternating timelines of present and past. There's mutual pining an on-again/off-again dynamic a good dose of angst and one hard-fought HEA. It's book 4 in the Plum Valley Cowboys series but can be read as a standalone.</em></p>