Books

LINES DRAWN IN THE DIRT
An Hyden Valley Ranch Series Novel — BOOK 9
Where Family, Land and Legacy Meet

The Hyden Valley Ranch is no longer struggling.
The barns are full.
The horses are working steady.
The fields are turning over as harvest begins.
Children run where they should not, laugh when they should not, and somehow remind everyone why this...

On a working ranch where the mornings come cold and early, and the work never waits, life is measured in responsibility, not comfort. Horses need feeding. Fences need fixing. Children need watching. And no matter what someone is carrying inside, the day still moves forward.

When a group of outsiders arrives at Hyden Valley Ranch, they expect to...

Out here, the work comes first.
It always has.

On Hyden Valley Ranch, life is not measured in easy days or quiet moments. It is measured in early mornings, long hours, and the steady weight of responsibility that never lets up. The land demands everything, and the people tied to it learn quickly that falling behind is not an option.

Late August...

THE LONG ROAD BACK HOME
A Hyden Valley Ranch Series Novel — Book Six
By Trudy Myrland

Luke Hyde never planned to come back.

The road took him away years ago—far enough to build a life, raise a family, and convince himself that what he left behind no longer mattered. Out there, miles from Hyden Valley, it was easier to believe the past had settled.

It...

WHEN THE WIND TURNS HOT
A Hyden Valley Ranch Series Novel — Book Five

The land has always tested them.
This time… it might take everything.

August heat settles over Hyden Valley like a weight that won’t lift. The fields are dry. The days run long. The kind of exhaustion that seeps into bones has already set in—and still, the work does not slow.

...

Some days begin like any other.
Work is waiting. Horses need tending. The land moves forward, steady and sure—just like it always has.

On Hyden Valley Ranch, life is built on rhythm. Early mornings. Long days. Quiet evenings around a table that has held the same family for generations. It is a life shaped by work, love, and the kind of commitment...

RIDING FOR THE HEART OF IT
A Hyden Valley Ranch Series Novel — Book Three

She came home to heal…but the ranch never slows down.

Lilly Hyde has always been the one who moves first, works hardest, and never backs down when something needs done. The one who rides through the dust, pushes past the pain, and carries her weight without question.

Until the...

Fields of Dust and Promise
Responsibility Settles In… and the Land Pushes Back
BOOK TWO

The hay is late. The ground is finally dry. And the window to get it done is closing fast.

After weeks of rain, soft fields, and stalled equipment, Hyden Valley Ranch faces a season that refuses to ease in gently. When the first cutting finally begins, everything...

Welcome to Hyden Valley Ranch—where family, land, and legacy meet, and every generation must decide what they’re willing to hold onto… and what they must learn to let go.

Spring is turning toward summer in Hyden Valley, and the ranch is already alive with the kind of work that doesn’t wait for anyone. Fences stretch for miles and need mending...

Fire on Main Street
A Haunting Small-Town Romance of Secrets, Rivalry, and Slow-Burning Love

In Silver Salmon Valley, Idaho, fire is tradition.

Every year the town gathers beneath hanging lights and watchful skies for the Main Street Chili Cook-Off — a celebration of heritage, pride, and recipes passed down like sacred vows. The scent of smoke...

THE LONG WALK HOME
A ISOLATE Series Novel
A Black Cedar Valley Thriller
Book One

She lives alone.
She locks her doors.
She leaves the porch light on.

It isn’t enough.

Lila Mercer keeps her world small and quiet in the remote reaches of Black Cedar Valley. Gravel roads stretch for miles without witness. Timber crowds the horizon. Deputies are forty...

BLOOD IN THE TIMBER
A Black Cedar Valley Thriller

The snow keeps secrets.
Until it doesn’t.

When a respected local woodsman fails to return from an early winter hunt in Black Cedar Valley, most assume the same thing they always assume: accident, animal, exposure.

They are wrong.

Wilderness guide Quinn Kade knows snow the way other people know streets....

THE BASEMENT MAN
Book 3 in the ISOLATED: A Black Cedar Valley Thriller Series

Black Cedar Valley is remote.
Beautiful.
Unprotected.

Gravel roads stretch for miles without witness.
Storms erase tracks.
Cell service dies in elevation pockets.
Deputies are forty minutes away on a good day.

Predators know this.

Maren Holt closes the gas station at 9:04 p.m.

By...

WHITEOUT
Book 4 in the Isolated Series

Five wounded survivors. One exhausted EMT. A storm that erased the valley—and a killer waiting in the whiteout.
The storm arrived faster than anyone predicted.

Snow erased the roads.
Wind swallowed the valley.
And the temperature kept falling.

Volunteer EMT Caleb Boone answers one last emergency call before the...

THE FENCE LINE
A Black Cedar Valley Thriller
Book Five in the Isolated Series

Out in Black Cedar Valley, the land stretches wide and quiet. Ranch houses sit miles apart. Gravel roads fade into timber. The wind carries the sound of cattle, the rattle of loose wire, and sometimes… something else.

Out here, fences mean safety.
Or at least they used to.
...

BLACK ICE ROAD
An ISOLATED Series Novel
A Black Cedar Valley Thriller — Book Six

• A winter highway.
• A stranded victim.
• A nurse who stops to help.
• And a trap waiting in the dark.

THE GRAIN BIN
A Black Cedar Valley Thriller — Book Seven
There are worse places to die than a grain bin.
But not many.

Inside the towering metal cylinders scattered across the farms of Black Cedar Valley, thousands of pounds of grain wait in silence. From the outside they look harmless—just another part of rural life.

Inside them, the air is thin.
The...

DEEP WATER
ISOLATED SERIES - A Black Cedar Valley Thriller
Book Eight

A 4-year-old girl vanishes at the edge of Dworshak Reservoir.

No scream.
No splash.
No sign she was ever there at all.

One moment she is throwing rocks for the family dog.
The next… she is gone.

The water is calm.
The shoreline is silent.
The forest offers nothing back.

So they tell...

THE DOGS KNEW
An Isolated Series Thriller — Book Nine

The warning was there. It just didn’t sound human.

Martha Kincaid noticed it first.
Not predator.
The dogs.

Duke did not bark like that at anyone else. Not the mailman. Not the delivery drivers. Not even strangers passing too close to the property line. But the moment Markus Crowell stepped onto...

THE LAST FIRE
ISOLATED SERIES
A Black Cedar Valley Thriller — Book Ten

They survived.
That was the problem.

Across nine brutal encounters from the last nine stories, a handful of people walked away from things that should have killed them. They fought back. They adapted. They lived.

And every story they told left something behind.
Now something is...