His to Ruin

She's the last Hale. He's the last Mercer. Fifty years of hate say they should want each other dead.

Nell Hale has buried her whole family and mortgaged what's left to keep the Bitterroot breathing. She was raised on one commandment: a Hale does not bleed for a Mercer. So when she rides out to find Boone Mercer standing in her spring like he owns the water and the world, the last thing she expects is the heat that hits her before the hate does.

Boone came home to hold a dying father's ranch together, not to want the one woman in the county he's forbidden to touch. But the feud that's kept their families at each other's throats for two generations is starting to look like somebody's lie, and the longer he fights Nell over a strip of contested ground, the more he wants to stop fighting and start claiming.

Then a smiling land man makes them an offer, and the truth comes loose. The hate they inherited was built to break them, the same way it broke the lovers who came before. To save both ranches, a Hale and a Mercer will have to do the one thing fifty years swore they never could. Trust each other. In daylight. With everything on the line.

She was never supposed to be his. Now she's the only thing he wants.

His to Ruin is a standalone enemies-to-lovers western with a slow-burn feud and a fast-burn heart.

Enemies to lovers · feuding ranches · forced proximity · forbidden love · last-of-their-line heirs · small-town western · guaranteed HEA

Scorching, fully open-door heat. Intended for mature readers.