Drawing Her Close: A Sapphic Ranch Romance (Sacred Peaks Ranch)

She drove eleven hundred miles to be left alone. The woman with the wrench had other plans.

An artist who draws walls. A cowgirl who builds them. One workshop that changes both.

Iris Vale needed to find a studio, a horizon, and nobody asking anything of her. She found a meadow and a quiet ranch hand who lifted a canvas roll like it weighed nothing.

Marisa Castellanos doesn't climb anymore and hasn't seen her country in years. She has the ranch, the fences, and the quiet she's built around the woman she used to be.

Then Iris hands her a torched piece of rusted metal and tells her she has an eye. And neither of them knows how to ask someone to stay.

One barn wall. Twenty-two feet of white masonry. A mural built from salvage, paint, baling twine, and the first thing either of them has made out loud in years. Iris is ace. Marisa doesn't flinch. The only question left is what happens when the van is packed and the engine starts.

A tender, low-angst sapphic romance featuring ace-spectrum representation, an age gap, a Cuban cowgirl with a complicated body, and a punk artist who finally finds the wall worth painting.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Ranch and small-town settings
• Found family and ensemble warmth
• Slow intimacy over dramatic angst
• Open door soft heat
• Ace-spectrum representation
• Age-gap romance (forty-eight and twenty-nine)

Heat: 3.5/5 flames. One explicit scene. Ace-spectrum, character-specific, and the softest book in the series.

Book 5 in the Sacred Peaks Ranch series. Can be read as a standalone.