Hearts in the Saddle

Sometimes the fiercest love grows in the quiet spaces between heartbreak and hope.

Veterinarian Lia Cheng is used to healing others—but her own heart is another story. After a painful breakup and the pressure of her high-stakes career in Houston, she escapes to the wide-open skies and sun-warmed fields of rural Montana. Her only plan is to help a struggling local rancher with his livestock and disappear before anyone can get too close.

Rhett Walker doesn’t need help. Not from a big-city vet with something to prove, and definitely not from a woman who makes him feel too much, too fast. His life is simple—wake up, work the land, keep the past buried. But from the moment Lia arrives, stubborn and beautiful and way too capable, everything starts to shift.

As days turn into long rides and shared sunsets, the two form a connection neither expected. But Rhett has secrets as deep as the roots of his land—and Lia has decisions waiting for her beyond the mountains.

Can love survive when the world calls you in two different directions?

Set against a backdrop of endless plains, quiet stables, and slow-burning desire, Hearts in the Saddle is a soulful cowboy romance about trust, tenderness, and what it takes to build something real—together.