Keep your friends close and your enemies chained to your bed.
— Carter Brose

Rough Ride

A filmmaker on the hunt for her aunt’s killer turns her camera lens on the rodeo, only to find herself tied up by a ruthless cowboy who knows how to take the reins.

Dead men can't talk, thank god. But dead women? They cry out for justice long after they're gone.

Hollywood darling Sara Feldman has an ulterior motive for her next documentary: she’ll prove her aunt was murdered by the Brose family—a wealthy, powerful ranching dynasty. But some things rarely go to plan…

Keep your friends close and your enemies chained to your bed.

Bronc riding champ and legendary playboy Carter Brose doesn’t trust outsiders—especially the stunningly curvy camera girl with the big eyes. Carter has secrets that Sara will do anything to expose, and Carter will do anything to keep buried.

When he discovers her true agenda, he sees an opportunity to keep her under his thumb: He’ll agree to be her main interview subject for a price—she’ll be his in every way until the end of rodeo season.

Their dark chemistry turns dangerously explosive, spiraling down a path of depravity and desire neither could have imagined. Despite themselves, they begin falling for each other, even though the truth will tear them and the rodeo apart…

    • Death of parent, in past (cancer)

    • Murder of a relative, in past but described in detail.

    • References to child abuse, child neglect, and child sexual assault/incest (the last is hinted at but not discussed)

    • Grooming/Sexual assault/rape (off page; not to or by main characters)

    • Alcoholism

    • Kink shaming (not by main characters)

    • Slut shaming

    • Misogyny

    • Murder

    • Violence, blood, and (some) gore

    • Guns

    • Police

    • Stalking

    • Fatphobia (not by MMC or FMC)

    • Arguable animal abuse (although none of the animals in the book come to harm, there is discussion about how rough stock are treated, and it’s…not always great)