Cold Stock — Mel A. Rowe

Jumping into danger is second nature for Stone. Letting someone in? That's the real risk.Freshly fired videographer, Romy Radford, flies into a once-in-a-lifetime chance to film the Northern Territory's deadliest predator—the saltwater crocodile. The only problem? She has to convince the rugged crocodile wrangler to show her his unique world.Stone may wrangle cold-blooded beasts on a daily basis, but cold this hero is not. He's carved out a life of freedom, guarding his privacy fiercely, and having a filmmaker in his space threatens all that. The last thing he expects is to use Romy's skills for a stolen livestock case that cracks open a mystery bigger than imagined.In a world where crocodile-infested waters hide more than just monsters, nothing is what it seems, and Stone is about to risk everything—even his heart.And what she captures on film… changes everything.Following the runaway success of Elsie Creek's Stockmen Series, welcome to The Stock Squad: where crime, cattle, and romance collide in the outback.