Smoke Over Hollow Creek: Desire Can't Be Silenced by War

After the Civil War, the frontier smolders. Law is thin. Violence isn’t. Elias Thorne, a deserter worn down by fighting that never seemed to end, finds Lydia Harper hiding in the ashes of her burned homestead. There’s a bounty on her head. He can turn her in or put himself between her and the men already tracking her scent.

Lydia sees only danger. The war took her husband, her home, and any faith in tomorrow. Elias carries his own weight, memories he can’t scrub away. With armies and bounty hunters closing in, they run across open plains hungry, injured, sleeping light with rifles close. Trust is a luxury they don’t have.

They share scraps by dying campfires. Huddle through storms in half-collapsed sheds, rain drumming on the roof. Proximity turns volatile. What grows between them is raw and reckless, the only warmth left in a ruined landscape. It helps them survive. It also paints a target.

Every shadow could mean capture. Surrender means a rope. Wanting each other raises the stakes when escape already feels impossible.

When survival demands betrayal, how far will they go to choose each other?

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Each book in Endless Plains tells a forbidden romance born from war’s ashes and kept alive by the fire of human connection.

Under wide skies and burning horizons, love cuts as deep as any blade. Endless Plains follows those who live and die on the edge warrior and settler, outlaw and captive, soldier and exile bound by survival in a land that spares no one. Here, mercy is rare, desire even rarer. Through fire, hunger, and betrayal, they don’t find peace in the frontier they find it in each other. Their battles carve the land. Their love defies it.

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