Drawing Her Close
About
She drove eleven hundred miles to be left alone. The woman with the wrench had other plans. An artist who draws walls. A cowgirl who builds them. One workshop that changes both. Iris Vale needed to find a studio, a horizon, and nobody asking anything of her. She found a meadow and a quiet ranch hand who lifted a canvas roll like it weighed nothing. Marisa Castellanos doesn't climb anymore and hasn't seen her own country in years. She has the ranch, the fences, and the quiet she's built around the woman she used to be. Then Iris hands her a torched piece of rusted metal and tells her she has an eye. And neither of them knows how to ask someone to stay. One barn wall. Twenty-two feet of white masonry. A mural built from salvage, paint, baling twine, and the first thing either of them has made out loud in years. Iris is ace. Marisa doesn't flinch. The only question left is what happens when the van is packed and the engine starts.
In This Book
- 🎨 Ranch and small-town settings
- 👨👩👧👦 Found family and ensemble warmth
- 🌙 Slow intimacy over dramatic angst
- 🌶️ Open door soft heat
- 🏳️ Ace-spectrum representation
- 💞 Age-gap romance (48 and 29)
Heat Level: 3.5/5 flames. One explicit scene.
Content Notes: Ace-spectrum representation; age gap; character with a complicated relationship to her body.
Book 5 in the series; can be read as a standalone.
Praise For This Book
"The Sacred land calls to the artists. This series of sapphic romances set on a ranch in Colorado has become one of my favorite reads."
— Verified Reviewer (Goodreads & Amazon)
"I loved the start being all about the scenery and the work done around the ranch."
— Goodreads Reviewer
"Drawing Her Close is a tender story about two damaged women who find each other at Sacred Peaks Ranch. This is a tender sapphic age-gap story about two women that fall in love even though one is ace."
— Verified Amazon Reviewer, "Beautiful Age-Gap and Ace-Spectrum Sapphic Romance"
"This book is a painting in words!!! I loved the ace representing, well portrayed, explained through emotions and actions. Beautiful work!"
— Verified Amazon Reviewer, "Simply Beautiful"