Small-town ranch romance. Career-driven heroine. Responsible ranch hero. A love that could change both of their futures.

Holden Calhoun thought leaving his family’s ranch meant leaving the past behind. The youth camp he helped build is thriving, but now someone else runs it—and he’s watching from the sidelines. His new job gives him more responsibility than he ever had before, yet the pull of Dogwood, the ranch, and the life he once imagined never quite lets him go.

Shelby Tasker arrives in Dogwood with something to prove. Fresh out of college and determined to succeed, she’s been sent to write a profile on the man who turned her father’s struggling business around. It’s her first big assignment, and failure isn’t an option—not when everyone back home is watching to see if she can really do this job.

But a professional profile turns personal the more time she spends with Holden.

Quiet confidence. Steady strength. The kind of man who makes small-town life feel like the future instead of the past.

Holden can suddenly picture something he never expected—a life with Shelby in Dogwood. Shelby is starting to see the same possibility.

There’s just one problem.

Shelby’s future isn’t here.
Her family’s business—and her entire life—is waiting across the country.

Now they have to decide if one unexpected connection is strong enough to change the plans they thought were already written.

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