Some places don't just take you in. They claim you.
Ginny Mae thought she was only coming to Willowbrook to catch her breath. Burned out and forgettable after eight years in a city that never once noticed she was there, she inherits a house, a valley, and a herd of rescue horses from a great-aunt she met exactly once - a woman who looked at her across a crowded room when she was nine and said there you are, like she'd been expected all along. Ginny tells herself she'll rest, sell up, and move on. She doesn't believe in fresh starts.
Then she meets Boone McKennon.
The rancher who runs her great-aunt's horses is gruff, grief-worn, and walled off behind twenty years of loss - and from the first morning at the fence, he looks at Ginny like the ground just shifted under his boots. She can't explain the pull between them any more than she can explain the things she's started to notice: the bay mare who watches her like she's been waiting two years to speak, the way the whole town seems to have known her name before she arrived, the warmth that rises in her own hands when a frightened animal lets her close. Some of the horses on this land, Ginny is beginning to understand, aren't only horses. And Willowbrook is hiding something the wider world would tear apart to possess.
She isn't the only newcomer who's noticed. A stranger has been asking the wrong questions all over town, and the danger he serves is coming for the valley - and everyone in it. As her feelings for Boone deepen and his guarded heart begins, at last, to open, Ginny will have to decide how much she's willing to risk for the family she never knew she was looking for, and for a home that may have chosen her long before she ever arrived.
Perfect for readers who love small-town romance with a touch of magic, a brooding, fiercely protective hero, and the slow-burn pull of a love worth tearing down a wall for. Tempted by the Horse Shifter is the first in the Willowbrook Horse Shifter series - a sweet-with-heat shifter romance featuring a hidden mountain town, a guarded rancher with a heart of gold, a herd full of secrets, and the quiet, undeniable magic of a place that protects its own. Curl up with a quilt, a mug of something warm, and let Willowbrook chase the city out of your bones.