A forbidden first love. A ranch at risk. A quiet little boy who may help them find their way home.
Five years ago, her father refused the only man she ever loved. Now he's back in Buckhorn Gap, with five years of letters he never sent.
Cecelia Heyward has spent the last two years running her Colorado ranch alone. She's made every decision her father once thought she couldn't, while refusing to regret the choice that cost her Tony Montoya. Or trying to escape regret, anyway. Then, after five long years, he rides into town as if those years were nothing at all.
Antonio Montoya has spent those years building a reputation as a Denver attorney, accomplished and polished enough that no one could ever look at his name and find it wanting again. It has been useful work. It has not been enough. It could never be enough.
When Tony returns to defend his family's century-old Spanish land grant, he and Cece find themselves on the same side of a fight neither of them expected. The most patient man in the valley has spent years quietly positioning himself to own everything the railroad will need, including the debt that could cost Cece her ranch. The only plan that can save her land is the one that saves his, and neither of them can build it alone.
Working together means facing everything they never finished. Tony must decide whether to protect Cece the way her father once did, or trust her the way no one ever has. And at the Heyward ranch, a young mother is running out of time to protect her little boy: a quiet child who copies ranch figures and holds the kitchen cat while he faces a future he can't yet trust.
The Once-Forbidden Bride is a sweet and clean second-chance romance about two people who never stopped loving each other—and the discovery that love is the only thing that can heal the past and make a family of the present.
Some losses don't stay lost.
- Second Chance Romance
- Reunited Lovers / The One That Got Away
- Forbidden Love (a father's refusal)
- Found Family
- Small-Town Frontier Romance
- Rancher Heroine
- Slow Burn
The reunion was five years in the making. Come home to Buckhorn Gap.
