About this audiobook

Some land doesn’t just belong to you. It claims you. Maeve Carter lives alone on the farm her father left behind — a place of fences, rituals, and hard-earned boundaries. The land is unforgiving, the town watchful, and privacy is a luxury she no longer believes in. By day, Maeve works the soil, mends fences, and defends what’s hers inch by inch. By night, she gives herself over to carefully controlled rituals of surrender — private, deliberate acts meant to quiet the noise of the world and remind her who holds the line. Then the boundaries start to move. A gate left open. A marker shifted. A man watching from the other side of the fence. Caleb Rowe is everything Maeve resents — controlled, respected, and certain of his place in the rural hierarchy that never quite lets her forget she’s being judged. Their tension simmers in silence and sharp words, charged glances and territorial disputes that feel far more intimate than either of them will admit.