Big Sky Reckoning: A Later-in-Life Romance

By Dana Velle

She spent twenty-three years being the perfect wife. Then she went to Montana and forgot how.

Brooke Callahan had the right house, the right parties, and the right silence. When a spontaneous trip to a remote Montana ranch with her closest friends drops her into a world of big sky and bigger questions, she expects scenery. She doesn't expect Jack Hollowell.

Jack is a widowed rancher still gripping the ghost of the woman he buried three years ago. He doesn't want company. He doesn't want comfort. And he definitely doesn't want the polished California woman who refuses to flinch when he falls apart.

But grief has a way of recognizing grief. And in the dripping silence after a Montana storm, two people who've been performing their lives discover what it feels like to stop.

Big Sky Reckoning is the first book in The Protocol Series - a sweeping later-in-life romance series about women who trade polite silence for radical honesty, and find love in the wreckage of the lives they thought they wanted.

Perfect for fans of L.B. Dunbar, Elin Hilderbrand, and Kristin Hannah.

Features: emotionally mature romance - Montana ranch setting - widower hero - second-chance love - fierce female friendship - first in series

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQXRKZQR
• ISBN13: 9798250469616
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"