Beneath the Canyons. Daughter of the Wildings, #1

The bounty hunter. The rancher's daughter. They share the same dangerous secret - magic. Silas Vendine, mage and bounty hunter, has followed a trail of strange, dark magic to the remote town of Bitterbush Springs, where he lands in the middle of a deadly feud - and discovers that a local rancher's daughter is hiding a dangerous secret. Lainie Banfrey has been taught all her life that wizards are unnatural creatures with no heart and no soul.
If anyone finds out she has magical powers, she could end up on the wrong end of a hanging rope. But when a mysterious gunslinger shows up on the hunt for a renegade wizard, she can't hide her power from him. Drawn to his magic - and to him, she agrees to help him in his search for the renegade who has brought her hometown to the edge of open war. Forced to hide their magic from the wizard-hating townsfolk, and fighting an attraction forbidden by the strict laws of the Mage Council - and by Lainie's father, Silas and Lainie must find the renegade mage and stop him before the deadly power he commands destroys everyone who makes the Wildings their home.
Join Silas and Lainie in an epic tale of magic, danger, adventure, and romance, and discover the wonders and mysteries of the Wildings, a frontier land of gunslinging bounty hunters, outlaw mages, and mysterious magic. Beneath the Canyons is the first book in the complete six-book epic fantasy-western series Daughter of the Wildings. Contains language, violence, and mild to moderate sensual content.