
The Barren Wife
A Dark MM Historical Western ThrillerBy Cordell RaineLength12h 24m
About this audiobook
Colorado Territory, 1873. Caleb Mercer runs sheep in the Wet Mountains with his wife Bea, who has been married to him for eleven years and has never once been pregnant. When measles takes her in April, Caleb buries her alone — and then finds the locked ledger in her trunk. In it, nine years of letters to a federal marshal named Hollis Ward, building a case against a cattle baron who has been fencing stolen cattle through the territory. Caleb rides to Denver with the letters and meets Ward face to face. Ward is forty, quiet, and has been in love with Bea for nine years without ever seeing her face. Caleb doesn't tell him. Then the two of them head into the Wet Mountain Valley together to finish Bea's case, and Caleb works out, slowly, that Ward is not grieving the woman he never met. Ward is grieving the man he has been falling in love with through the mail. A dark MM historical western thriller about letters, and the man who should have signed them.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Historical Fiction
Length12 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish