Blood Moon Ranch

Hope Ranch is the last thing Josie Hope has left, and a forged debt is about to put it on the auction block. Searching for water in the abandoned west mine, she finds frost, a living red line under her skin, and Kieran Vane, the elegant heir of the family that has profited from her bloodline's curse for generations. Then the impossible gets personal: Cinder, the ash-gray wolf who has slept on her porch and heard every secret, is revealed to be Eli Reyes, a man cursed into wolf form and sworn to watch the boundary under the ranch. Beneath the cattle barn, an ancient seal holds Mara Vane, Josie's missing mother Evelyn, and something older than either family. With West Drilling closing in, Kieran's guilt turning into devotion, and Eli's loyalty cutting deeper than betrayal, Josie must break three inherited claims at once: the Vanes' claim to sacrifice, the Reyes family's claim to guard, and the Hopes' claim to choose the next keeper. The door wants voluntary blood. Josie wants everyone back alive.