The Wife He Left To Die (You Chose Her. Now Grovel. #20)

Tess Thayer used to be the person who came when people called. Twelve years into Denver money, even her thermostat lives on her husband’s phone.

The night of the first storm, she rolls her truck on Rabbit Ears Pass.

Upside down and bleeding, she calls her husband, Porter, seven times. He never answers.

He says he was on a plane. Six weeks later the alarm log says he was home, thirty minutes from the hospital, with his chief of staff. He swears he never saw the calls, and Tess wants the marriage back badly enough to believe him.

Then it’s revealed

he saw the calls.

Held the phone in his hands. Didn’t answer and instructed his assistant not to.

She takes the ranch, sixteen hundred acres in her name alone, and reopens the outfitting company she sold the year she married him. Nine horses, a permit two bigger outfits wanted, a partner who never forgave the sale. She has not asked anyone for anything since October.

Porter answers his own phone now, first ring, every call. She has built a life at eight thousand feet where she never has to make one. Whether she is willing to is the question.

A mountain second-chance romance with no cheating, a wife who stops waiting, a husband who has to earn her back, and a hard-won HEA.