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Now available · Iron River Ranch, Books One & TwoA Montana Hi-Line saga
Up on the Hi-Line, a hard day's ride from the Canadian line, the Kincaids have run the Iron River brand since the 1800s. One year, from spring calving to the dead of a long winter, puts everything their forefathers built on the table: a lawsuit over a customer's death, a son who can't stay out of trouble, a son who looks north for more, and a family secret older than all of them.
Book One
A hundred and forty years on the Hi-Line. One year to lose it all. It starts with a spring blizzard and a phone call: a man in Toronto is dead, his family is suing for eleven million dollars, and the beef on his plate carried the Kincaid name. Jen has to prove what really happened, Tater can't stay out of the county courtroom, and Charlie has fallen for a girl whose family's Alberta cattle company wants a piece of the brand.
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Book Two
The winter isn't done with the Hi-Line yet. The story picks up in the dead of January, and the trouble has only grown: a lawsuit headed for federal court, a bank that wants its money, a Canadian cattleman circling the ranch, and a secret kept for years that will change who the Kincaids are. From the hardest winter in memory to branding day, a story of grit, family, and the people who stay, fence line to fence line.
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All things the brand.
A trilogy in three voices
One marriage, told from each side. The Echo Chamber is about the quiet mechanics of ordinary betrayal: the small, deniable choices people make long before anything requires a name.
Book One
Jonathon Kimes has everything he ever sketched on a napkin: a thriving restaurant, a twelve-year marriage, a new son. Then a new hire walks through the door.
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Book Two
Her husband still comes home. He still kisses her first. But something is turning over in him, and one Wednesday morning a name lights up the dashboard at 6:43.
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Book Three
Jon has a sentence he hasn't been able to say for two months. Jess has numbers that don't add up. Then one gray morning, he says her name, and they begin the first honest conversation they've had in a year.
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J.D. Marlow writes about the ties that hold people together and the pressure that tests them, whether that's a ranch family that's run the same brand for generations or a marriage quietly coming apart from the inside.
Raised on respect for hard work, plain talk, and the people who came before, J.D. writes the kind of characters you'd know if you saw them at the feed store or across the dinner table.
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