Mafia Cowboy's Bride

He has ninety days to prove he didn't kill the mother of his son. He spends them falling for the wrong woman.Hunter Sterling rules Blackwater Ridge from horseback. Cowboy. Single father. Heir to a criminal empire no one in town is supposed to know about. When the mother of his four-year-old son is found murdered in a cabin on Sterling land, the whole county decides Hunter put her there. He has ninety days before the indictment lands. Ninety days before he loses his ranch, his name, and his boy.Lola Jackson came to Blackwater Ridge to disappear. She owes too much money in too many cities, she's done loving men who drink, and the diner job and the upstairs apartment over Maybelle's general store are all she can afford. Then her car dies on a flooded back road, and a stranger in a black Stetson pulls her out of the rain like she's the only thing in the storm worth saving.Hunter doesn't do soft. Hunter doesn't do strangers. But Lola is a fire he didn't start and can't put out, and when someone tries to put a hand on her in her own apartment, Hunter does the only thing a Sterling man knows how to do.He puts a ring on her finger and brings her home.She thinks the marriage is paperwork. She thinks the ranch is a hideout. She thinks the brothers in matching belt buckles are just a family. She is wrong about all of it. And the longer she stays, the more she starts wanting the man who built this dangerous, beautiful kingdom — not in spite of his ropes and his rules, but because of them.Then the bullets start coming through the windows.The Mafia Cowboy's Bride  is the explosive first book in The Sterling Syndicate — a dark cowboy mafia romance with a possessive single dad, a city girl who finally fights back, a found family who would burn the country down to keep her, a goat named Gary, and a love story written in dust, blood, and slow-burning need. Standalone HEA. Series cliffhanger leads into Book Two: The Cowboy Mafia Outlaw .