Everyone in Blackwater Hollow knows two things:

The Ashford family owns half the town.

And the Blackwood family hates them.

For generations, the feud has been buried beneath polite smiles, business deals, and whispered threats exchanged across bourbon glasses. Most people don't even remember what started it anymore.

You do.

Because your father died because of it.
After years away, you've returned to Blackwater Hollow to settle his estate and sell the crumbling family property on the edge of town. You planned to stay for a week. Long enough to sign papers and disappear.

Then someone breaks into your house.

Someone starts leaving anonymous notes.

And the sheriff finds a body in the woods behind your land.

Now the entire town is watching you.

Especially Rhett Ashford.

Golden-eyed, arrogant, devastatingly handsome, and heir to the wealthiest family in Kentucky, Rhett has spent years pretending you don't exist. Yet somehow he keeps showing up wherever trouble follows.

He claims he's trying to help.

You think he's hiding something.

The deeper you dig into your father's past, the more secrets you uncover—missing money, old betrayals, and a decades-old crime someone in Blackwater Hollow would kill to keep buried.
And the closer you get to the truth...

The harder it becomes to stay away from the one man you should never trust.

Blood and Whiskey