Brand Me, Cowboy’s Second Chance by Elsie James

Fallon
Coming back to Kingridge Ranch after years of playing pro football in Europe should feel like a homecoming. I’m the new head of security and the job should suit me, but somehow nothing feels right. She’s missing. Anny was my whole world. She was the fire to my spark and the person who knew me better than I knew myself. All my plans for the future had her at the center… until one day, she cut me off completely. No explanation. No goodbye. So I left her at the ranch and started my new life as a football star for the NFL Europe.
Now I’m back, and she’s still here, running the ranch with the same fiery sass that always had me wrapped around her finger. But somehow, our paths haven’t crossed—yet. I know she’s avoiding me, but that won’t last. I need answers and she’s going to give them to me. Because no matter how much time has passed, Anny is still the only thing I can’t live without.

Anny
Fallon was always destined for something bigger than this town and the people in it. That includes me. At least, that’s what everyone said. When you hear something enough times, you tend to believe it. When I thought I was pregnant with his baby at eighteen I couldn’t be the reason he gave up his dreams. So, I let him go. I cut him off, and let the town whispers of his new life with new women harden my heart. Turns out, I wasn’t pregnant. But he wasn’t here anymore either.
Now, Fallon’s back—bigger, stronger, more infuriatingly handsome than ever. He wants answers. But now that I’m finally moving on, the last thing I want to do is dig up old wounds.
I’ve built a life here and made my own name on this ranch. I won’t let myself fall for him again… no matter how much my heart aches. But when Fallon looks at me like I still belong to him, I feel the walls I built start to crack. Because the truth is, I never stopped belonging to him.

The Kingridge brothers are ranching royalty. But even money, power, and influence can’t buy you love.