The Oilman's Boy (Roughneck Hearts #1)

He was everything Elliot should avoid... and everything he couldn’t stop wanting.

When twenty-one-year-old art student Elliot Hayes moves to the small oil town of Willow Ridge, Texas, he’s focused on one thing: building a future beyond his troubled past.

Falling for a roughneck nearly twice his age was never part of the plan.

At thirty-nine, Damon Blackwell has spent years earning a reputation as the town’s most intimidating oil worker. Tattooed, broad-shouldered, and carrying enough scars for a lifetime, Damon knows exactly what people think of him.

Dangerous.

Trouble.

Not good enough.

Especially not for someone as bright and hopeful as Elliot.

The attraction between them is impossible to ignore. What starts as stolen conversations and reluctant friendship quickly becomes something far more intense. Damon wants to protect Elliot from everything—including himself.

But small towns have long memories.

Rumors spread.

Families interfere.

Old mistakes return.

And when a life-changing opportunity threatens to pull Elliot away, Damon is forced to confront the one thing he’s feared most:

The possibility that he deserves happiness.

As passion ignites beneath the Texas sky, they’ll have to decide whether love is worth risking everything they’ve built.