Copyright
©Kerry Kennedy 2026 “All Rights Reserved”
This is a work of fiction, with characters, places, and incidents being products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is coincidental.
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SYNOPSIS
Welcome to Willowbrook —where the gossip’s fast, the cowboys are grumpy, and the new girl just walked into the wrong bar.
Montana James didn’t come to Willowbrook to make friends—she came to outrun a secret. Fierce, fearless, and fresh off the rodeo circuit, she’s only planning to lay low and keep moving. But one step inside Lazy Duke’s, the local bar, and her plan gets knocked sideways by one brooding bartender with a jawline carved by sin and a glare that could curdle milk.
Abe Duke doesn’t do drama, and he definitely doesn’t do trouble—not since the last time it nearly cost him everything. But the moment Montana storms into his bar, mouthing off and lighting fires, he knows he’s in for it.
They clash. They burn.
And underneath all that attitude? Chemistry hot enough to raise the Willowbrook heat index.
She’s hiding something.
He’s determined to find out what.
And neither of them is walking away without a few scars.
Love at Lazy Duke’s is a steamy small-town enemies-to-lovers romance full of sharp banter, slow-burn tension, and a love story that’s anything but tame.
