The Rancher Next Door Won't Stay Away

He bought the land next to his family's ranch for peace and spent five years fixing fences, rotating pastures, and talking to livestock instead of people.

Then Shelby Reeves arrives, a city woman with a bad attitude who bought the neighboring cabin without ever seeing it.

She cannot start a generator, her pipes freeze in the first week, and she looks at him as if he is the problem whenever he shows up to help.

She keeps telling him to leave her alone, even though her firewood will not last and her fence has gaps a coyote could walk through, and he can see she is healing from a broken marriage while running from something she will not name.

He has never been good with words, only with his hands and with arriving when someone needs him whether she asks or not.

Ranchers know how to wait, and the property line between them keeps getting crossed.