Second Chance Ranch

A group of women, best friends and business partners. Seven wounded men. One pet rescue. Second chances for animals and hearts that have quit believing in love.

Burned out and broken-hearted, a group of young women trade the gray drizzle of Seattle for the wide-open skies of Haven Creek, Montana — a tucked-away town in the high Rockies where the porch lights stay on and everyone’s welcome. Together these best friends pour everything they’ve got into one improbable dream: a rescue for animals nobody else will save, run out of a big red barn behind an old white farmhouse.

They came to give second chances. They didn’t plan on finding a few of their own.

Haven Creek is full of strays — the four-legged kind, and the kind who wear jeans and flannel and keep the whole town at arm’s length. A reclusive ex-soldier who’s been told he’s incapable of love. A solitary architect coming home to the father who sent him away. A restless wildlife photographer, a small-town bookseller, a sharp-edged journalist, and a lonely landscaper. One by one, the women rescue a man who’s given up on himself while they find the courage to believe in love again right alongside him.

At Second Chance Ranch, animals also find their forever person — an anxious German Shepherd who flunked out of search-and-rescue school, an arthritic Labrador Retriever who adopts exactly the wrong person on purpose, a pregnant mare who trusts the one human who trusts nobody, an adorable kitten who destroys everything, a Lassie-worthy collie who babysits an escape-artist goat. They’re the matchmakers nobody saw coming.

Found family. Grumpy-sunshine. Homecomings and small-town charm. Set against starlit mountain meadows, lazy river swimming holes, and golden Montana sunsets, the Second Chance Ranch books are slow-burn and closed-door sweet, full of emotion and family healing that will make you cry the best kind of tears. 

Pull up a porch chair. Your new favorite stories are waiting.