Embracing His Scars by Tonya Burrows

He’s built walls out of scars… but she slipped through.

Anson Sutter came to Valor Ridge to disappear. The former Navy EOD tech spends his days shoeing horses, tending his skittish wolfhound, Bramble, and pretending his burn scars stop at the surface.
They don’t.

Every scar became another brick in the walls he lives behind, and only one person has ever breached them–Maggie, his pen pal. He built his new life around the hope she sent him, falling for her one letter at a time, knowing he’d never deserve to meet her in person. Men like him don’t get happy endings. And women like Maggie don’t fall for ex-cons hiding at a ranch for broken veterans.
She builds sanctuaries for others… but now she needs one herself.

Magnolia “Maggie” Rowe restores broken places for a living, her DIY show making her a reluctant celebrity. But fame comes with a price: a stalker who’s turned obsession into something vicious. And when he proves he can reach her anywhere, she runs to the man she trusts most: Anson.

But the man she finds in Montana is nothing like the gentle voice from her letters. He’s guarded and gruff, already retreating behind the scars he thinks define him. And her arrival may have drawn her stalker straight to Valor Ridge, threatening the quiet life Anson has barely begun to reclaim.

Can a love built on paper survive a threat written in blood?
To protect her, Anson will have to face the fire again.
To love her, he’ll have to embrace the scars he’s spent years hiding.

Embracing His Scars continues the emotional journey of the Valor Ridge series with a slow-burn, pen-pal-to-lovers romance. If you crave scarred protector heroes, brave heroines who refuse to break, and a found family that stands between danger and their own, this story will hold you captive from the first page to the last.