Rider: Small Town, Family Saga, Protector Hero

Dani Ortiz is the land surveyor the pipeline company sent to walk the route. She's good at her job, she doesn't take sides, and she's just discovered the survey stakes on the Matheson side of the fence keep marching onto Lone Wolf ground — on a map her field boss says doesn't exist.

When Dani's truck is torched with her field notes inside, the twin who never took sides has to choose one. Maverick knows the back roads, the abandoned line shacks, and every place a woman can hide on ten thousand acres. He also knows the one thing he found in his uncle's wrecked truck that the sheriff said not to mention.

Somebody has already drawn the pipeline across Lone Wolf Ranch. Now they're erasing the people who noticed.