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When Carter Hale arrives at the Hayes family farm looking for work, he isn’t just another drifter passing through rural countryside.

He’s a man with a past built on manipulation, financial deception, and calculated betrayal.

And he came to the farm for a reason.

At first, Carter’s plan is simple: gain the family’s trust, identify the financial vulnerability, and disappear before anyone realizes what happened. The Hayes farm holds generational wealth quietly buried beneath acres of land, livestock, and tradition. To someone like Carter, it should be the perfect job.

Until he meets Brooke Hayes.

Brooke is sharp, observant, and far more perceptive than Carter anticipated. What begins as controlled proximity turns into something dangerous: attraction. The kind that blurs lines Carter has spent years carefully maintaining.

But Carter isn’t the only predator circling the farm.

The partner he left behind refuses to walk away—and when intimidation escalates into sabotage, the quiet stability of the Hayes property begins to fracture. What started as a financial con becomes something far more volatile: a game of leverage, loyalty, and survival.

Now Carter faces the one scenario he never planned for.

Choosing sides.

Because if he finishes the job, he destroys the family that trusted him.

And if he doesn’t…

The man who taught him how to dismantle lives will come for everything he’s built instead.

On a farm where loyalty runs deeper than blood, Carter must decide what kind of man he really is—

before the past he buried burns everything to the ground.

• Danielle Wilmer
• Published 1970 January 1st by Kindle Direct Publishing (first published 1970 January 1st)
• ISBN:
• ISBN13: 9798252202945
• 546 Pages
• 4.38 8 ratings
• 5 reviews