Every Second He Held On: A Clean Christian Cowboy Romance (The McCord Brothers Book 4)

He has spent his life making people laugh. She has spent hers making sure no one gets close.

Nash McCord can make a room laugh in nine seconds flat. He has been doing it since he was a boy, and he has never let anyone stay close enough to discover what is underneath the jokes.

He quit the rodeo the spring his father died, leaving behind a fight the two of them never got to finish. Since then, Nash has learned to fold every hand that matters before it can cost him.

Now he is the foreman of a good man’s failing Oklahoma operation, with a note coming due in the fall—and a million-dollar stallion that cannot put his hind foot down.

Then Darcy Kincaid arrives.

Darcy fixes horses everyone else has written off. She has the best hands in three states, a rig she lives out of, a half-blind dog, and one rule she has never broken: eleven weeks, then gone.

She has spent her whole adult life leaving before anything can cost her.

It takes Darcy about thirty seconds to see through Nash’s act.

What follows is a summer of dawn rehab sessions, a flash flood, a country preacher, and a man discovering—slowly and unwillingly—that there might be something underneath the jokes worth keeping.

Then a younger brother goes down in an arena.

Suddenly, everything Nash has kept at arm’s length lands on him at once.

He cannot outrun this one.
He cannot make it funny.
And the woman who has seen all of him refuses to let him lean on her instead of getting well.

Because sometimes the hardest thing a man can do is stop performing long enough to let himself be known.

What happens when the funny one finally has nothing left to hide behind? And what if the robe he has been trying to earn has been hanging up for him the whole time?

Every Second He Held On is Book Four of the McCord Brothers—a clean, Christ-centered romance about grief, grace, and the long road back to being known.