SCORCHED EARTH

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She’s his boss’s nineteen-year-old daughter. He’s the foreman who just caught his wife in the supply trailer with her father.

Beau Hadley has spent fifteen years being dependable. Dependable foreman. Dependable husband. Dependable man who smiles when his boss takes credit, goes home to a wife who’s stopped pretending, and tells himself this is what loyalty looks like. Then he walks into the wrong supply trailer at the wrong time and watches his entire life detonate in the space between one heartbeat and the next.

His wife. His boss. The trailer floor.

Brandi Holloway is nineteen, pre-vet, and the only person in Calvary, Texas who sees Big Ray for exactly what he is — a man who takes everything and builds nothing. When she finds Beau sitting in his truck in the parking lot of a gas station at midnight, staring at his phone like it murdered his family, she doesn’t offer comfort. She offers something better.

A plan.

What starts as the perfect revenge — the boss’s daughter, the betrayed foreman, a fire lit specifically to burn one man’s world down — becomes something neither of them expected. Because the thing about striking a match is you can’t control what it touches. And the thing about Beau Hadley is that underneath the steadiness and the silence lives a man who has been waiting his entire life to stop being careful.

She teaches him that wanting isn’t weakness. He teaches her that strength doesn’t have to be loud. Together, in a small Texas town where everybody knows everybody’s business and secrets don’t stay buried, they discover that the fire they lit to destroy one man’s legacy might be building something worth keeping.

SCORCHED EARTH is a dark revenge romance featuring an age gap (19/38), a morally grey hero who falls first, a heroine who refuses to be anyone’s collateral damage, explicit sexual content, a pregnancy subplot, and a happily-ever-after that is earned through fire and built from the ashes.

The dependable man wasn’t boring. He was waiting. And the woman who lit the match wasn’t reckless. She was the spark he needed to finally burn.

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