A Girl Named Waylon

“I can’t give you forever.”“And I couldn’t take it even if you could.” She’s a wild-hearted tumbleweed who never stays in one place.He’s a guarded rancher who’s sworn off anything temporary.Waylon Rhodes lives life like a country song — loud, unapologetic, and carefree. When her brother offers her a summer job on a family ranch in Gillette, Wyoming, she figures it’s just another pit stop. Three months, then she’s gone.Jesse Jennings doesn’t have time for chaos. He keeps his fenced-in-world on Crystal Lake Ranch steady and controlled. The last thing he needs is a smart-mouthed, free-spirited green-eyed hurricane blowing through.But from the moment Waylon storms onto his ranch, something shifts. Beneath Jesse’s gruff exterior is a man who sees her — really sees her — and for the first time in years, she starts to wonder what it might feel like to stay.As summer days turn into stolen nights and quiet confessions under starlit skies, Waylon must decide if she’s brave enough to trade the open road for the one man who finally made her want to stop running, or if Gillette’s just another stop on a map.A slow-burn, small-town Western romance about old wounds, family, friends, and finding out that a home may be a person, and not always a place. Read more