Where the past and the present collide, and where nothing stays hidden forever. This is West Texas, and out here, nothing is as it seems.īig Bend County is a place of beauty and desolation, of secrets and small towns. Secrets break wide open as Dakota remembers– In a moment, everything changes: the hunters become the hunted, the past fractures, and all Dakota thought he knew comes tumbling down. And the bodies keep piling up as Dakota and Shane try to run the killer down across the West Texas plains. There’s nothing Dakota wants more than a second chance with Shane, but so much is stacked against them: six corpses, a murderer on the loose, and history that refuses to stay buried. He throws off his blanket, and says he is ' bound to stay. Dakota heads back to his hometown and comes face-to-face with the last man he ever expected to see again: only now, he’s Deputy Shane Carson… Dakota’s local partner assigned to the case. Never Stay Gone (Book 1 in the Big Bend Texas Rangers series) Release Date: Octo(Amazon & Kindle Unlimited) Universal Link: mybook.to/NeverStayGone Cover Art by Angela Haddon Book Cover. I never, in feeding the poor creature, could forget that somewhere, perhaps, he had a. When the Rangers get the call about six bodies being pulled out of a mass grave in West Texas, the governor sends Dakota to run the investigation. But falling for Dakota spun Shane’s world upside down, and for years, Shane has had nothing but the memories of all that he lost: Dakota’s gentle touch, and the sweetness of his lips, and the star-strewn nights they spent wrapped in each other’s arms. There’d been a plan, ever since he was knee-high to his father. Shane’s life was supposed to be different than this.

Loving you is the only time I feel alive. Sure, he’s a Texas Ranger, but that’s not how he wanted to live his life. Even now, Dakota is still feeling the agony of losing Shane. But one afternoon shattered their love story, and both Dakota and Shane left Rustler, Texas, with broken hearts. Thirteen years ago, Dakota Jennings thought he’d found his forever when he fell in love with Shane Carson. Six bodies in a single grave… in the same West Texas country where Dakota left everything behind.

Never Stay Gone by Tal Bauer