Every Word the Wind Took: A Christian Cowboy Romance (The McCord Brothers Book 3)

He is the quietest man in the county. She is the most unwelcome woman in it.

Ty McCord has started colts on the same Colorado ranch for nine years. He gets up before the sun, feeds a one-eyed cat who considers the place his, calls his mother at six on the dot, and says about forty words a day if the day is talkative.

There is one question he has never asked anybody. He was waiting to ask his father. His father died first.

Laurel Blake walks twelve miles a day with a heavy pack and a radio collar receiver, and every rancher in the valley knows exactly who she is. She works the wolf reintroduction. In two years, not one man in this country has met her without having an opinion ready before she opened her mouth.

Ty does not offer one. That is the first thing she notices about him.

What grows between them over a summer of five-thirty coffees and shared silences is the best thing either of them has ever had — and the whole valley is watching. Then a two-day-old calf turns up dead in a draw at four in the morning, and a man is standing over it with a rifle off his shoulder, and every careful thing Laurel has built is suddenly one bad week from being voted away.

Ty has a foot in both camps and no gift at all for talking. He is going to have to find some words anyway.

And then a letter arrives from Wyoming with his father’s name in it — and the answer to the question Ty never got to ask.

Can a quiet man speak up in time? And when going home means asking the woman he loves to leave everything she has fought for, what is he actually asking her to give?

Every Word the Wind Took is Book Three of the McCord Brothers — a clean, Christ-centered ranch romance about hard ground, honest work, and the things a man finally says out loud.