Reckoning of Raven Strickland: A Small-Town Romantic Suspense (Hill Country Shadows Book 2)

She survived the fire.
Now something is watching the ashes.

In Hill Country Ridge, quiet doesn’t mean safe.
It means someone is watching.

Raven Strickland is trying to rebuild a life everyone expects her to lose again. Her house is repaired. Her son is back in her arms—part-time. The town smiles politely while counting her mistakes. And every step forward feels like permission for someone else to step closer.

When unfamiliar shadows start appearing outside her home—and subtle warnings replace outright threats—Raven realizes this isn’t about the past she escaped. It’s about what she still knows. What she still represents. And how badly certain people need her silent.

Sheriff Riley Thompson knows the signs of escalation—testing boundaries, probing systems, fear meant to look accidental. Protecting Raven is his job… but staying detached is no longer an option.

Because this time, the danger isn’t loud.
It doesn’t break windows or kick in doors.

It circles.
It waits.
It watches.

As town politics, old loyalties, and buried crimes begin to surface, Raven is forced to choose: retreat again—or stop hiding and let the truth burn its way into the open.

Someone has already decided she won’t survive another reckoning.

They’re wrong.