In Heaven, Love is the First Thing War Takes.
Heaven, Oklahoma Territory. 1866. Built on blood. Owned by the man who spilled it.
A family is dead on the plains, arrows in the walls, staged to look like a raid. Deputy Bran Lachlan reads the ground instead of the story he’s supposed to believe. The arrows are wrong. The horse tracks are wrong. The trail leads to Theodore Breachman, the man who owns the church, the mercantile, and every badge in the Territory.
The women around Bran see it coming before he does. Sophie Genevive keeps a ledger that could hang half the Territory and has never once used it to save herself. Angelique Devereaux lies to the most dangerous man in Heaven every night she shares his bed, one slip from a grave. Claire Lachlan walked out of the Scarlet Nightingale and into a wedding dress, done being anyone’s secret.
Six hundred miles east, Cayden Lachlan feels his twin brother die. Every bullet leaves a mark. The bond between them goes silent, and what’s left isn’t grief. It’s a reckoning.
Bran carried the only heart the two of them ever needed. Heaven’s about to meet what’s left without it.