Behind the scenes of a cowboy romance built on instinct, betrayal, and a longshot worth believing in.

So many things in life involve risk. Each day, thousands of people are challenged in some way to take a leap of faith for a myriad of reasons. It could be a different career path, a relationship, a financial endeavor, or a business partnership.

Specifically, what causes someone to stop looking for romantic love?

Belief. At some point, they stopped believing it was possible.

Some stories start as a spark. This one started as a risk. Broken Hearted Cowboy was born from a simple question: What happens when a man who trusts nothing but instinct is forced to trust someone again?

Harrison’s Story

Harrison is the kind of man who bets big and lives with the consequences. A rancher who is now a reluctant thoroughbred racehorse owner. A man who lost after investing in a relationship with a woman who betrayed him. She stole his reputation and pride, and a great deal of his money too. 

She left him in the Oklahoma dust – with a wild two-year-old colt no one believed would ever load into a starting gate.

He’s already paid dearly for trusting the wrong person once. That betrayal was public, expensive, and humiliating enough to teach him a brutal lesson:

Love makes men reckless.
Desire? That’s manageable on his own.

So when this story opens, Harrison isn’t broken in a soft, wistful way. He’s sharp-edged. Controlled. Guarded. And absolutely not looking for love.

Meet Nicole

Nicole doesn’t heal him. She doesn’t fix him. She challenges him.

A sought-after trainer with a reputation for turning written-off horses into winners, Nicole knows exactly what her expertise is worth. She’s used to powerful men underestimating her, and she doesn’t bend for any of them.

Harrison sees something in the way Nicole can communicate with horses. It’s beyond what any other trainer can do that he’s hired. Hesitant to throw more money on this horse, he takes his first risk on Nicole’s abilities. She makes no guarantees, but somehow, he has a feeling she can make progress and get him out of the hole on his horse – Red Ledger.

When his horse starts responding and the results speak louder than his doubts, his respect for Nicole becomes something else entirely. What starts as reluctant trust turns into obsession – one he didn’t plan for.

Lust Before Love

This story lives in that dangerous space between control and temptation. 

They make rules.
They break them.

Neither of them wants promises. 

But longshots don’t win by playing it safe.

And neither do cowboys who’ve sworn off their hearts.

Broken Hearted Cowboy isn’t about gentle healing or slow emotional unraveling. It’s about adults who know better and choose the risk anyway.

It’s heat-forward and messy in the best way. It’s about choosing belief over fear, even when the odds say you shouldn’t.

Sometimes, the biggest gamble isn’t the horse – it’s letting yourself want more.

Broken Hearted Cowboy is available on Amazon only currently at this link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GDSKMPPK