The Last Chance Cowboy

by Jody Hedlund Book 5 in the Colorado Cowboys series.

First published 2023

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As a midwife, Catherine Remington is successful in bringing new life into the world, but she's failed one too many times in finding true love. When she's accused of a murder she didn't commit, she's forced to flee and decides to run away to Colorado to honor a patient's dying wish to deliver a newborn infant to his father. The repentant prodigal Dylan McQuaid is finally back in Fairplay. Elected as sheriff, he's doing his best to prove to the town he's a changed man and worthy of their trust. When a woman shows up with an infant son he didn't know he had, Dylan is left with only complicated choices on what to do next.

Catherine’s flight and Dylan’s election as sheriff bring medicine, law and reputation together in a town still deciding whom it can trust. The series concludes by turning parenthood and public service into evidence of repentance, while faith gives both characters a reason to confront rather than outrun the past.