Sapphire and Gunfire by Rhett Kincannon

She arrived in a pearl-gray dress and eyes the color of a summer storm.

By sunrise, the town was marked for takeover.

Deputy Marshal Cade Mercer knows trouble when he sees it—but he's never seen it look like Evelyn Ashford. Sent ahead of a powerful land baron who buys towns with paper and fear, she was meant to measure Red Bluff's resistance.

Instead, she chose sides.

Now contracts are due, guns are drawn, and dominion hangs in the balance. Because when ink fails, men like Augustus Vale turn to gunfire.

And this time, Red Bluff is ready.

Sapphire and Gunfire is a hard-riding Western of power, betrayal, and a femme fatale who refuses to let her storm destroy the town she's come to love.