Love at First Rescue (Rough & Ready Country #3)

Cricket has been my North Star for as long as I can remember. She’s my everything, but I can’t let her know it . My former high school sweetheart and current employee, the curvy dispatcher tests my professionalism to the breaking point.Instead, I play the part of the uncaring Gold County Sheriff and bosshole, pulling it off so convincingly she quits. I can’t blame her, and I try to let her go. I’ve worked hard to bury my feelings over the years, believing it’s for the best. Then, a searing, unguarded kiss leaves me dangerously close to surrendering everything to love. As much as I yearn to claim her, though, unspeakable secrets from my past won’t allow it…I’m convinced she can do better than me and resigned to a life without the only woman I’ve ever loved … until I get a punch-in-the-face wake-up call I can’t ignore. And when fate threatens to take her from me? I ride through hell and back to save her. I’ll kill the man who lays a hand on her. Problem is, how will I ever follow my own rule?