She left Hallow Creek at eighteen and never looked back.
Wren Calloway built her life on ambition?a byline at a Chicago paper, a reputation she'd clawed from nothing, a city that didn't care where she came from. Then one bad source, one unverified story, and it all unraveled. Now she's suspended, broke in ways that matter more than money, and driving two days through the dark toward the only place she has left to go.
Home.
Hallow Creek, Montana hasn't changed. The mountains are still indifferent. Patsy's Diner still smells like bacon and burned coffee. And Beck Hayes is still exactly where she left him?on the ranch next door, running his late father's operation alone, watching her with those unreadable eyes like he's been waiting a decade for her to finally come back.
Beck never needed to leave to know who he was. He's the kind of man who fixes fences and shows up without being asked, who says what he means and means what he says. He loved Wren Calloway when they were young, let her go because she needed to go, and built a life in the space she left behind.
He didn't plan on her coming back.
He definitely didn't plan on wanting her to stay.
But Wren's suspension won't last forever. Chicago is still out there, waiting. And wanting something?wanting someone?doesn't mean you know how to keep them.
WORN AND WANTED is a slow-burn contemporary romance set against the wide skies and working ranches of rural Montana. For readers who love homecoming stories, competent heroes who lead with their hands and their hearts, and heroines who have to learn that staying can take more courage than leaving.
