Under the Colorado Sky

Emma Hall has built her life on other people's stories, chasing quotes, filing on deadline, and pretending the ache in her chest is just burnout. When the city noise finally drowns out her own voice, she does something reckless: she walks away from her Denver newsroom and rents a remote cabin on a working cattle ranch, vowing to spend one Colorado summer finally writing the novel she's always been too afraid to finish.

High Meadow Ranch is nothing like the life she left behind, wide skies, stubborn cattle, quiet nights, and a view that steals the words right out of her. It's also home to Caleb Walker, an Army Vet, now Rancher carrying the weight of three generations on his shoulders and more than a few old wounds under his steady silence. Keeping the ranch alive is hard enough without a big-city journalist living on his north pasture.

As Emma finds a new rhythm in small-town Cottonwood Ridge, coffee at the diner, advice from gruff-but-kind Hank, long days wrestling her story onto the page, Caleb's carefully ordered world begins to shift. But when the past comes knocking and hard choices loom for them both, Emma will have to decide which story she's brave enough to live:

The safe one she always thought she wanted...

or the one written under the Colorado sky.

A. Roucher writes heartfelt, character-driven stories about ordinary people finding the courage to choose love, family, and second chances. He's the author of the epic fantasy A Crown of Ash and Flame and now turns his eye to the wide-open spaces of contemporary Colorado in Under the Colorado Sky. A former Army Ranger, he lives in New England, where he divides his time between wrangling words, and too much coffee.