Falling for the Steady Foreman

A Faith Filled Frontier Romance

By: Sutton Rivers

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

What happens when doing everything right still isn’t enough to guard your heart?

Mattie Sloan has built her life on clean ledgers and clear lines. As the steady hand behind Stonebrook’s livery books, she keeps freight moving, payroll balanced, and tempers from flaring when the stage line falters. Paper doesn’t disappoint. Numbers don’t leave. And as long as she stays useful, she stays safe.

Silas Boone has no such luxury. As foreman of the Bar-K hay camp, he carries a crew’s wages, a herd’s winter feed, and a reputation for fairness that’s taken years to earn. He doesn’t promise more than he can deliver—and he doesn’t reach for what he can’t guarantee he can keep.

When a broken stage line delays the Bar-K payroll and a discrepancy threatens to unravel trust at camp, Mattie makes a choice that defies town expectations: she rides out herself to set the accounts right. What begins as a practical partnership in heat and dust turns into something far more dangerous—a growing tenderness neither of them can afford to mishandle.

But when a sudden storm swells the creek and strands them under the same roof, propriety is tested, past wounds rise, and both must confront the quiet fears they’ve lived by: that love costs too much… and that they might not be enough to carry it.

Back in Stonebrook, where eyes are sharp and talk is cheap, Silas must decide whether to court Mattie in the open—or retreat behind duty. And Mattie must choose whether to keep earning her place… or risk being chosen for who she is, not what she manages.

To build a future, they’ll have to cross more than a flooded creek—they’ll have to cross the distance between fear and trust.

This frontier Western romance features forced proximity, a slow-burn courtship, small-town scrutiny, emotional healing, faith elements, and a deeply satisfying happily-ever-after.