Double Bucked

Name: Double Bucked
Author: Adora Crooks

169 pages

She’s an equestrian heiress. I work on her father’s ranch.
Our love was passionate, secret, and forbidden. Until I broke her heart.

When her father dies under mysterious circumstances, Claire is forced to come back home. Back to me.
It’s been five years, but one look at those intelligent, grey eyes and a fire awakens I thought was long dead.
Only problem? She’s wearing another man’s engagement ring.

Her fiancé is uptight, sophisticated, and he’s got a nose I’d like to break. He thinks he’s standing between me and my forever, but he’s got another thing coming.
I’m the best roper in Belleflower. And Claire’s about to learn some knots can’t be undone.
Be careful where you sleep in Belleflower, Kentucky, where rattlesnakes hide between the sheets…
Double Bucked is a spicy dark love story set in an Appalachian small town where nothing is as it seems.

Desperate to escape her demanding father and the oppressive purity culture of her hometown, Claire Preacher ran away five years ago. She left everything behind—including her first love.
But her new life is derailed when news of her father’s suspicious death forces her to return home.
Claire finds enemies around every corner as she’s pulled once again into the town’s toxic grip and a strange, cult-like obsession with the Belleflower Festival, a pageant style affair for promising young women run by nefarious characters.

But when she uncovers the town’s sinister secrets, Claire has to wonder…is everything in her life a lie?
Flanked by her straight-laced fiancé and her devil-may-care cowboy ex, Claire sets out on a journey to discover the truth about her father, her town, and herself

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