MacKenzie-Blackthorn

Janna Wayland, the wild stallion Lucifer, and Ty MacKenzie join forces to escape from the steep mountains and canyons of the Utah Territory.

Carla McQueen had loved Luke MacKenzie since she was fourteen and first introduced to the Rocking M Ranch. Now she was seven years older…and still in love with a man who thought of her as his best friend’s kid sister. Luke MacKenzie was haunted by the Rocking M’s legacy of grinding women into dust, leaving behind bewildered children and lonely men as hard as the wild canyons and ridges of the ranch. Luke has vowed never to marry—the bitter legacy of the Rocking M will end with him. Planning to purge her system of Luke, Carla comes to the Rocking M for the summer—only to fall more deeply in love with him. Luke looks at her and sees a woman he wants until he burns. But to have her, he’ll have to choose between her and the ranch that is part of his soul…

When wildlife biologist Eden Summers arrives in the Colorado Rockies, she has only one thing on her mind: to continue her research on the local cougar population. A capable woman, used to living and working alone in the wild, she is self-possessed and confident, able to handle any threat from nature's fiercest predators -- until she gazes into the eyes of Nevada Blackthorn. She pulled him, injured and bleeding, to safety in the middle of a storm, unleashing a man who would invade her deepest dreams. But Nevada -- a rancher by trade, a warrior by nature -- is a man who has learned that walking away from caring is the only key to survival and that only the strongest survive. Any woman fool enough to try and change him will be hurt -- badly -- for their efforts. Perhaps Eden is that kind of fool. Or perhaps she has no choice but to follow a calling as fierce, as wild and as natural as the beating of her own heart . . .

Luke hadn't seen Carla for three years. Not since the day he'd so cruelly sent his best friend's kid sister storming from the Rocking M Ranch — and out of his life. Now she was back, lovelier and even more desirable than he remembered. But Luke knew he could never give in to the fire that still raged in his heart. For he'd made a vow long ago, one he was determined to keep — no matter what the price.