Rough Stock — Mel A. Rowe

A champion bull rider. A runaway lawyer. A second chance they didn't see coming.Cowboy Craig's rodeo ride comes to a crashing halt, thanks to a two-thousand-pound bull. Stuck at home, this stockman's muster season looks bleak—made worse when his estranged wife shows up unannounced.Isobel 'Izzy' Callahan traded outback cattle stations for high-powered city courtrooms, but now she's on the run, searching for a fresh start. But hiding out in Elsie Creek means confronting the man she left behind—and the life she thought wasn't for her.With danger closing in, and Craig offered a position on the taskforce investigating cattle theft, old wounds and buried truths resurface. Will Craig and Izzy get their second chance at love—or will the past destroy their future first?Following the runaway success of Elsie Creek's The Stockmen Series, welcome to The Stock Squad: where crime, cattle and romance collide in the outback.