Maya Black

He waited ten years. She never knew he existed. She swore she'd never come back. When her estranged father dies, financial consultant Dakota Wilder returns to the failing family ranch she fled ten years ago-and the painful memories she left behind. She has ninety days to save Wilder Creek Ranch from foreclosure, and she's determined to do it alone. The last thing she needs is help from anyone, especially the quiet, guarded ranch hand who seems to see right through her walls.
He's been waiting his whole life. Colt Carver has loved Dakota since before she knew his name. As a young ranch hand, he watched her from afar, knowing he'd never be good enough for the boss's daughter. When she left, he stayed-working the ranch, leaving flowers on her mother's grave, waiting for a woman who might never return. Now she's back, and she's more beautiful and broken than he remembered.
But Dakota's homecoming unearths secrets that someone has killed to keep buried. As they work together to save the ranch and expose a decades-old conspiracy, the tension between them ignites into something neither expected. Can two wounded souls learn to trust again? Or will the ghosts of the past destroy their chance at a future?Wild Hearts Don't Break is the first book in the Wild Hearts of Copper Creek series-a heartfelt Western romance about second chances, small-town secrets, and the courage it takes to finally come home.