Colt Sawyer didn't come looking for trouble when he took the job at Blackwood Ranch. He just needed steady work, wide open country, and a place to keep his head down.

Wade Blackwood, the hard-eyed foreman who runs the place, makes that plan impossible.

Wade is older, larger, and used to giving orders that get followed without question. He doesn't trust new hands, doesn't share his bed, and doesn't let anyone get close enough to see past the wall he's built. Until the new hand starts working under him day after day—dust, sweat, and heat building between them until neither man can pretend it's only about the job.

One stormy night in the barn cracks the restraint. What follows is raw, filthy, and far more intense than either of them planned.

Colt learns what it means to be claimed by a man who takes what he wants. Wade learns what it costs to want someone enough to keep him.