FENCES AND FOOLISH HEARTS
Harlow James has a plan: fix the car, sign the papers, sell the ranch, and get back to Dallas before the town of Copper Creek notices she’s there.The plan lasts approximately twelve minutes.Her car dies in front of Hank’s Gas & Go. The woman behind the counter knows her last name on sight. And the tall, green-eyed rancher who pulls up in a dusty Ford F-250 looks at her like he already knows how this story ends. Callum Brennan has been running her late grandfather’s two hundred acres for years. He also happens to be the neighbor whose family sold Earl James the land in the first place.The will is clear. If Harlow wants to sell, she has to live on the property for ninety days. No exceptions. No shortcuts. Just her, a house full of unanswered questions, a town that has been talking about the James-Brennan feud for nearly thirty years, and a man who keeps showing up exactly when she’s decided she doesn’t need any help.She came to settle an estate.
She did not come to stay.But Copper Creek has a long memory, and some inheritances refuse to stay buried.Fences and Foolish Hearts is a slow-burn small-town romance about family secrets, stubborn hearts, and the dangerous difference between the life you planned and the land that claims you.