{"product_id":"reckless","title":"Reckless","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe single dad cowboy hadn't said a full sentence to a woman in two years. The first one he said to her was, \"You're standing in my driveway.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the umbrella pen name behind a 10-book romance launch, Sloane Ashford. Spice: 3 chilies. Always HEA.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoney Beaumont showed up in Honey Ridge, Montana with two suitcases, a journalism degree she'd stopped using when her marriage went sideways, and the address of a woman who had been dead for two years. The town was named after the wrong honey: the local creek. It took her thirty-eight minutes to figure that out, and another twenty-two to find the ranch, because the GPS quit at the cattle guard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man who came down the driveway in a green John Deere truck wasn't expecting her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWes Calloway is six-foot-four, thirty-three years old, single father of a seven-year-old girl who reads at a fifth-grade level and refuses to read out loud since her mother died. He owns Calloway Ranch with his brother and his uncle. He fixes the fence. He delivers the calves. He runs the feed orders. In the two years since his wife died, he has said exactly one sentence to a woman who wasn't his sister or his daughter, and that sentence was \u003cem\u003ethank you, ma'am\u003c\/em\u003e to the cashier at the grocery store.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe says the second sentence to Honey Beaumont in his driveway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoney, who has spent the last sixteen hours driving across three states because the only person who ever told her she was going to be \u003cem\u003efine\u003c\/em\u003e was a woman named Cass Calloway, did not come to Montana looking for a man. She came to find the kitchen Cass used to write to her about. She came because her own marriage just collapsed and she needed to be inside the walls of a house Cass had loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat she finds is a kitchen that hasn't been used for company in two years, a small girl who looks at her like the first person who has ever asked her a real question, and a cowboy who can fix the porch step she trips on in seventeen minutes but cannot, for the first three days, look at her without flinching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWes lets her stay. He doesn't say much about it. He tells his brother \u003cem\u003eshe was Cass's friend\u003c\/em\u003e the way someone might say \u003cem\u003eit's about to rain\u003c\/em\u003e. He puts up a guest-room curtain at six the next morning. He learns her coffee order on day four. He fixes a thing she didn't know was broken on day six.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoney was going to leave on day ten. She doesn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoney Ridge has a diner with one good pie. The Calloways have a brother's wedding coming up in October. Cass's daughter, whose name is Posy, starts reading out loud, two sentences at a time, in the back of Honey's notebook. And Wes Calloway, who has been waiting two years to find out if he is allowed to want anything else again, is finding out from a woman with paint under her fingernails and a laugh he can hear from the barn that the answer is \u003cem\u003eyes, baby, you are.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReckless\u003c\/strong\u003e is a single-dad cowboy small-town romance for readers of Elsie Silver's \u003cem\u003eHeartless\u003c\/em\u003e, Lucy Score's \u003cem\u003eThings We Never Got Over\u003c\/em\u003e, and Lyla Sage's \u003cem\u003eDone and Dusted\u003c\/em\u003e. It's Book 1 in the Honey Ridge trilogy. Each book is a different couple in the same Montana town. Standalone. Spice: 3 chilies (open door, warm, no dark themes). CWs at the front of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTropes I'd ride into Montana for: single-dad cowboy, grumpy-sunshine, the man who fixes the porch before he tells you he loves you.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePick your room. xx Sloane.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sloane Ashford","offers":[{"title":"Volume 1 (Reckless)","offer_id":44645342380115,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Volume 1 + 2 (Reckless + Restless)","offer_id":44645342412883,"sku":null,"price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Complete Trilogy (Reckless + Restless + Tender)","offer_id":44645342445651,"sku":null,"price":74.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/4986\/4531\/files\/design1_emotional_hook_a1169f8f-d81e-46eb-b28f-5e15cf843543.png?v=1779421523","url":"https:\/\/silkthorn.com\/products\/reckless","provider":"Silkthorn","version":"1.0","type":"link"}