Come Home to Antler Creek

Joey Hargrove has six weeks to save her family's Texas ranch, or lose seventy years of land to drought and debt. The only path forward runs straight through the man she swore she'd never face again: Gideon Marsh, the neighbor who vanished without a word the week his brother drowned in the creek they shared. Now the county is forcing them back to the rotting gate on the boundary line, back to the water that still remembers everything. He doesn't know her ten-year-old son has his eyes. He doesn't know she chose silence over the truth. As they work side by side in the cracked mud, old habits return before either can stop them, and a secret eleven years deep begins to surface. Some things can't stay buried when two people who never stopped loving each other are forced to choose: protect what they've hidden, or risk it all for a second chance neither one asked for. A slow-burn, second-chance romance about land, loss, and the truth that finally comes home.