www.kensingtonbooks.com All copyrighted material within is Attributor Protected. Table of Contents Title Page Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Copyright Page Chapter One Blackhawk Ranch was running dry. Cabe Dawson had lost one well already, and now a second had slowed to a trickle. There hadn’t been enough rain this winter to fill the creek the ranch got its surface water from, and the surviving wells fought to bring the water up nine hundred feet and into the baking, skin-drying heat of California summer. Now, as he steered his battered pickup over the dark dirt road, time seemed to slow to a heated, sensual shimmer with one driving urge pounding through everyone and everything: find water. Cattle needed it. Men wanted it. Cabe Dawson would be damned if he allowed a dry well to take what he’d built here. Making a living from the land meant fighting every step of the way. Fortunately, Cabe had never minded a good fight.
