Hard Dirt & Soft Hands (The Buckshot Boys of Georgia, #1)

🔥 HE WAS ALL CALLUSES AND CLOSED DOORS—
Until she laid her hands on his land... and his heart.
Jesse Callahan was a gruff, growly, no-damn-nonsense cowboy just trying to keep his ranch above water and his past buried deep. He didn't need distractions.
Especially not the kind with short shorts, big opinions, and a hammer that could build a kennel or break a man open.
But Lila Mae Whitaker wasn't just a distraction.
She was the wildfire he didn't see coming—
and the softness he never knew he craved.
Now he's learning how to hold on without holding back.
And she's learning that some fences aren't meant to keep love out.
💋 Hard Dirt & Soft Hands
Book One of The Buckshot Boys of Georgia
By Priscilla Smith
Southern heat. Cowboy hands. Real damn feelings.

I've always been drawn to the forgotten corners—the chipped tea cups, creaky staircases, half-finished letters, and the feeling that something—or someone—is waiting just out of sight. All of my novels come to me in the stillness, when my life feels anything but quiet.
For a long time, adulthood was a storm I didn't know how to name. I lost pieces of myself in the noise, in the surviving. But stories, somehow, kept their light on. That healing doesn't always look like a triumph—it sometimes looks like a warm kitchen, a handwritten note, or a house that remembers you when you don't remember yourself.
When I'm not writing, I'm dreaming up strange little worlds, whispering secrets to my cat, Luna, being a mother, or making something beautiful out of the broken bits. This is one of many novels. It comes with every part of me I had to reclaim just to write it.
There are more stories coming. And I'm not afraid of the quiet anymore.
— Priscilla Ann Smith