River in Light — Leanne Davis

With his violent past, prison record and neck-tattoo… she's more than unnerved by him but completely distrustful of what he thinks or might do.Rose Rydell can't figure out how to even talk to her sister's best friend, Mateo Alverez. She is home in River's End with her education and job training done to start working with her mom as a dyslexia specialist and tutor. She avoids the world her dad and sister inhabit as car mechanics. But most especially she avoids Mateo.Mateo knew only darkness in his childhood and youth. He finally gets a break working at Rydell Rides because his boss, Shane Rydell, gives him the job opportunity, despite his prison record. But Shane also warns Mateo to go nowhere near his daughter, Iris. The problem is, that's not the daughter that has caught Mateo's eye. Rose has.But Rose has no idea how he feels about her. Until one day… he changes everything between them. It shocks her and shifts all that she notices and thinks about him.He finally has her attention but he has no idea what to do with it. She starts to see things he's hidden from everyone his entire life. Things that aren't dark or violent, but talents and interests far beyond what's ever been noticed before.But when violence touches River's End… Mateo is the first suspect. The natural suspect in everyone's eyes. The exact thing Mateo always expected to happen. As their relationship finally comes out to all of River's End, they have to find a way to keep Mateo free and their love together… Binge read this contemporary, western romance series, full of hot cowboys and family entanglements that is based around the Rydell River Ranch brought to you by small-town romance author Leanne Davis… Recommended Reading Order for River's End Series:River's EndRiver's EscapeRiver's ReturnRiver RoadRiver on FireRiver's LostRiver of ChangeRiver's DestinyRiver's RescueRiver's Winter Dive into the next generation of River's End:River in DarknessRiver in LightRiver in the MountainsRiver at the RanchRiver to the OceanRiver from the CityRiver Through the ValleyEach book is a standalone with a happily-ever after but the journey getting there? Never easy and always epic! You'll get to check in with beloved characters in this interconnected standalone series.