I WAS THE QUEEN OF THE SALOON UNTIL THEY BRANDED ME STOCK. I hid my heavy secret under silk and lace while the pressure in my chest became an unbearable agony. Lane Dunn saw the truth behind my mask. He did not see a woman of status. He saw a resource to be harvested. He dragged me from my throne and shattered my defiance with a heavy hand. Now the city is a memory and the ranch is my cage. Lane and his two most trusted hands own every inch of my skin. They place me in the stocks and demand my production. Justin and Travis follow Lane's lead with a dark, knowing intensity. They take turns draining the relief from my body until I am weak with gratitude. My pride is a small price to pay for the end of my pain. I am shared property. I am a prize to be worked and managed. Men from my past are coming to collect my debts. Lane refuses to let them touch his investment. He says I am branded as his forever. To keep me safe, these three cowboys must finish taming me. They are stripping away the last of my humanity. There is only the producer left. I am finding a dark contentment in the hayloft and the heavy pull of their hands. I am the pride of the Dunn Ranch and I belong to the herd now.