Women of Wind River – Shay Crawford

From Wind River Rancher by Lindsay McKenna, Book 2, Wind River Valley Series

Shay was a rancher’s daughter. Her mother’s relatives created the Bar C over a hundred years earlier in Wind River Valley. A drunken father, a wife and child beater, she watched her mother slowly die over the years from his brutality. After she died of a broken heart, Shay fled to the Marine Corps and became a truck driver in Motor Pool in Afghanistan. Called home when her father had a crippling stroke that rendered him incapable of running the Bar C, she comes back to the same nightmare as before. Only this time? She’s not a shrinking, terrified child. She is a strong woman forged in the fires of war. And she’s going to fight her father for the ranch her mother loved so much.

Something to hold on to . . .

Not so long ago, Reese Lockhart was commanding a company of Marines. Now his life is spiraling out of control. The Bar C ranch outside Jackson Hole, Wyoming may be his last chance to save himself . . .

Shaylene Crawford, an Afghanistan veteran herself, knows all too well the demons of PTSD—that’s why she’s determined to turn her family’s cattle ranch into a place where wounded warriors can work, find a home, and rebuild their souls. Her embittered father nearly drank and gambled the place away, but with help from a small crew of vets—including the newest arrival, the quietly compelling Reese Lockhart—she intends to hold on to her dream. And when someone tries to destroy that dream, Reese will do whatever it takes to defend her . . .