Long Road Home — Mary Jane Morgan

Megan Swearingen's life changes forever with the death of her father. Leaving college, she returns home to find her younger sister mute with shock, her mother too depressed to function, and their beloved Thoroughbred horse ranch on the verge of going under. She's barely arrived when she's forced to accept help from Brett Dawson -- the man who once broke her heart -- when a marauding mountain lion threatens one of the prized horses they depend on for survival.

Brett would rather be anywhere but the Swearingen ranch. Caught between his feelings for Megan and the powder keg of the ongoing feud between their families, he feels his only choice is to help Megan, regardless of the consequences. If it weren't for Brett's father, Megan's dad might still be alive, and she wouldn't be here now sacrificing her future to save her family's ranch.

As the long-simmering attraction between Megan and Brett resurfaces, it is threatened almost before it begins by dark family secrets swirling around them -- secrets that turn to danger and could very well destroy not only their new beginning, but the lives of everyone they both love.