Stone Heart Ranch: Novella 1

October 2025

From Manhattan to Montana—love leads you home.
A contemporary western romance about wounded hearts, second chances, and finding home in the last place you expected.

 

Bestselling romance novelist Tansy Garrison has mastered the art of writing about passion. But lately, every love scene she crafts feels like a carefully researched lie, and every happily-ever-after rings hollow. When her editor suggests she’s writing something different, Tansy makes a radical decision: trade Manhattan penthouses for Montana mountains, contemporary romance for cowboys, and comfortable success for the kind of authentic experience that can’t be faked. She has one month at Stone Heart Ranch to find what’s missing—in her writing, and maybe in herself.

Dash Sterling needs solitude. Three years ago, his ex-wife’s betrayal nearly destroyed him and the family ranch he’d do anything to protect. The last thing he wants is a writer renting the cabin he built with his own hands for a woman who shattered his heart.

But Montana storms have a way of breaking down walls—literal and otherwise. When fire forces Tansy into Dash’s home, everything changes. The man who carved Shakespeare into wood and charged through smoke to save her life isn’t the cold rancher she expected. And the woman wearing his sweatshirt and looking at him like he might be worth the risk? She’s threatening every defense he’s spent years building.

She came to Montana to write about love. He came back from heartbreak convinced love was a lie.

Now they have to decide. Is the fear of getting hurt again stronger than the pull of what they could become together?