Her Name Under the Hammer: A Texas Gothic Fantasy Romance

The first thing Eden Vale learned to sell was silence.Now someone has put her name on the block.At Mercy Livestock Auction, Eden can read a room, drive a bid, and make ownership final with the fall of a hammer. But when three strangers arrive after midnight and purchase a scarred mare under a false name, the sale leaves behind an empty address, a missing record, and a warning tied to the west gate.A bell with no tongue.Then an animal enters Eden's ring without a public lot number.Her father's hidden ledger holds the explanation. For generations, the Mercy has concealed bargains involving land, weather, bloodlines, and things no family should have the right to sell.One debt remains unpaid.Eden's.She was never meant to inherit it.She was meant to be the price.Jonah Mercer knows the forgotten roads and the rules buried beneath the Mercy. His family helped witness the old bargains, and his return may be Eden's only chance to break them. But the closer they grow, the more dangerous their connection becomes. In a market where names establish ownership and desire can be twisted into evidence, even love can be entered against the debt.The buyers have returned to collect.To stop them, Eden must expose what her family hid and take control of the one place built to make every transaction final.Her auction ring.Every sale needs a witness.Every debt demands payment.And when the final lot is called, Eden will be the one holding the hammer.Her Name Under the Hammer is a dark, sensual Texas gothic fantasy romance about inherited bargains, dangerous desire, and a woman who refuses to be sold.