Three brothers. Three women who should have stayed away. One ranch town built on secrets, blood feuds, and the kind of love that survives everything it shouldn’t.
Coldwater Ridge runs on silence—the Holloway family built their ranch on land no one questions and a reputation no one challenges. But the cracks are showing. A federal informant arrives wearing a wire and falls for the brother she was sent to destroy. A newly divorced woman retreats to her brother’s property and stumbles into the arms of the most dangerous Holloway son. And a veterinarian trapped in her own father’s criminal orbit discovers that the youngest Holloway has been building a case against her family—and watching her for far longer than she knew.
The Holloway Brothers Series follows three couples bound by the same feuding families across three books—each navigating a different kind of betrayal. Smoke and Shadows strips away the line between justice and loyalty when an undercover operative falls for her target. Rust and Ruin drags a woman into a blood feud she didn’t start and a love she can’t walk away from. Ash and Obsession forces the daughter of the enemy to choose between her father’s name and the man who could end it all.
The wires are cut. The barns burn. And the women of Coldwater Ridge rewrite the rules the Holloway name was built on.
Book 1 — Smoke and Shadows (Sloane & Finn)
“She came to Coldwater Ridge wearing a wire. She didn’t plan on falling for the man at the other end of it.”
Sloane Hartley is a federal informant with one job: infiltrate the Holloway ranch, gather evidence, and dismantle the family’s operation before her father’s debts swallow them both. Finn Holloway is the eldest brother—the one who holds the family together, manages the legitimate face of the ranch, and trusts no one who shows up without a reason. Sloane has a reason. It’s just not the one she gives him.
As Sloane digs deeper into the Holloway operation, she uncovers something far worse than a family crime ring—a corrupt contracting firm, Victoria/Blackwood, that has been manufacturing leverage against the Holloways for years. The enemy isn’t the ranch. It’s the system that built the cage around it.
When Finn discovers the wire, everything fractures—and Sloane must choose between the mission that was supposed to save her father and the man she was never supposed to want. The courtroom wins. The ranch goes legitimate. And Sloane and Finn build something neither betrayal nor bureaucracy could break.
Alternating POV (Sloane & Finn) • HEA
Book 2 — Rust and Ruin (Iris & Cade)
“She came to Coldwater Ridge to disappear. He made sure she was the only thing anyone could see.”
Iris Brennan is freshly divorced, emotionally gutted, and looking for the one thing Coldwater Ridge promises—silence. Her brother Owen’s ranch is supposed to be a place to heal, not a front row seat to the Holloway family’s unravelling. But Cade Holloway doesn’t do silence. He is the middle brother—the volatile one, the one with his father’s temper and his mother’s stubbornness—and from the moment Iris steps onto Owen’s land, Cade treats her like something that already belongs to him.
What starts as dangerous attraction becomes a lifeline neither of them expected. But Coldwater Ridge doesn’t let people heal quietly. The Price family—old enemies with new grievances—escalates from threats to arson, burning Owen’s barn to the ground and kidnapping Iris to send a message the Holloways can’t ignore.
Cade tears through every wall between them, but it is the federal immunity deal—not violence—that finally breaks the cycle. The barn rises again. The blood feud ends in a courtroom, not a field. And Iris and Cade build something from the rust and ruin that neither of them believed they deserved.
Alternating POV (Iris & Cade) • HEA
Book 3 — Ash and Obsession (Ashlyn & Knox) — Series Finale
“She was the enemy’s daughter. He’d been watching her long before she knew his name.”
Ashlyn Price is a veterinarian with steady hands and a surname that poisons everything it touches. Her father Raymond runs the Price operation—the family that burned the Holloway barn, kidnapped Iris Brennan, and spent decades bleeding Coldwater Ridge dry. Ashlyn wants no part of it, but Raymond doesn’t believe in deserters.
Knox Holloway is the youngest brother—the quiet one, the one who watches. He has spent months building evidence against the Price family, and Ashlyn is the crack in their armour he didn’t expect. What begins as leverage becomes something neither of them can control. Blackmail blurs into protection, surveillance into intimacy, and Ashlyn’s sister Maren becomes the secret witness who tips the scale.
When the FBI closes in, Ashlyn must choose: her father’s name or the man who gave her a way out—knowing that walking toward Knox means burning every bridge to the family that raised her. Raymond falls. The Price name loses its grip. And from the ash, Ashlyn and Knox build something clean—a veterinary practice, a life on their own terms, and a love that chose freedom over fear.
Alternating POV (Ashlyn & Knox) • Full Series HEA
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