Iron River Ranch

On Montana's Hi-Line, just this side of the Canadian border, the winters come early, stay long, and don't forgive. The Kincaid family has held the Iron River brand since the 1800s, fence line to fence line, and Douglas and Samantha Kincaid mean to hand it down the way it was handed to them: quality first, then family and God. All things the brand.

But keeping a brand is harder than burning one.

Chris "Tater" Kincaid works harder than any hand on the place and fights harder than any man in the county. He talks loud, tells it true, and loves his Momma without condition. What he can't do is stay out of trouble long enough to run the ranch.

Jen, the steady one, carries the books and the weight of every choice that could go wrong. When a customer dies and Kincaid beef takes the blame, she faces a lawsuit that turns on one question: was it bad meat, or a stranded shipment nobody reported? The answer could cost the family everything.

And Charlie, the youngest, is his father's son through and through. He's restless and reckless, always looking past the next ridge for a way to grow the brand. Then a Canadian girl and her family come into his life, and Charlie's loyalties get pulled across a border that was never as thin as it looked on a map.

From spring calving through a winter that tests every one of them, with foreman Mick riding alongside and old secrets waiting to surface, the Kincaids will learn what holding the land truly costs, and who's willing to pay it.

Iron River Ranch is the first book in a contemporary western family saga about land, loyalty, faith, and the ties that bind a family to the ground beneath their boots.