Marni has a successful career, beautiful apartment, and a great friend in the city she now calls home. Yet, when her best friend sends her pictures of a wild band of mustangs she saved from being slaughtered, Marni finds herself pulled back to the life she was ripped from at eighteen. The ghosts of her past haunt her, and flashbacks threaten to throw her into crippling fear. Can she save the wild stallion, or will he save her?

Connor never dreamed of the cowboy life, even after coming home to run the family ranch after his tour in Afghanistan. Self medicating with drinking and sex does little to midigate the flashbacks ruining his life. When the girl he was in love with ten years ago turns back up in town, emotions resurface, and the truth’s of her past bring up a need to protect her at all costs.

With each battling trauma that left them physically and mentally scarred, will time be on their side? Or will Marni once again be forced to leave Connor behind?

Tonya’s an independent woman who doesn’t rely on anyone in her life. When her best friend moved away then her older brother enlisted in the army, she became content with being alone. Now, ten years later, her best friend finally came back to where she belongs. Tonya and her brother run the ranch side by side, but she feels the need to prove her worth time and time again. She wasn’t prepared to open herself up to her brother’s best friend when he nearly died. With each kiss his chisels away the hardened walls she’s formed around her heart. But that also means her secret is getting closer to the surface, a secret she planned to take to her grave.

Hocks remembered Tonya from the rodeos he went to with Connor, her brother. When he started working on the ranch he found himself watching her, impressed by her strong will. He kept meaningless relationships to pass the time and keep him from thinking about his best friend’s little sister. It wasn’t until he came face to face with death that he let himself envision something more with her. But it was all too good to be sure. When he gets a text from his past, he’s forced to make a choice and do the one thing Tonya is most terrified of.

The ranch is in trouble and cattle are being stolen. Ranchers are being forced to sell. Tony and Hocks don’t know just how intertwined their secrets are. But the family sticks together and the Curstons won’t go down without a fight.

Stacy’s life was planned out. She gets A’s in school and has two loving parents. Until the cops showed up on night and give her the worst news of her life. She’s forced to move across the country to live with family she’s never met in small town in Wyoming. Her mother taught her to hate everything about this place and the people in it. When a cowboy offers to help to her on day one, she’s quick to show him what she thinks about being stuck on the ranch. Her only goal is to get back to Florida and far away from this place.

Jack’s dream is to build a life and have a love like his parents. But first he has to win the bull riding championship and buy a ranch of his own. He never counted on her putting a wrench in his plans. She’s just a distraction, one he can’t afford when on the back of a bull for eight seconds at a time. The harder he fights his feelings for her, the stronger they grow and more agitated he gets.

Stacy will learn that blood doesn’t make someone family and family doesn’t always have her best interest at heart. When Jack comes back from the rodeo to find her covered in bruises and living with her best friend, he’ll make sure it never happens again. She’ll be left with a choice; go back to Florida or take a chance on the life she could have with her newfound family.

Living in a small town in Wyoming, the Curstons have some odd holiday traditions including riding horses through a competition called the Cowboy Winter Games. The Curston siblings will have a new outlook on decorating and spending time with family when they learn the harsh reality of their fiancés’ past Christmases. The need to find the perfect gift has Tonya stressed while Marni is worried if Connor’s gift will make him happy or somehow feel worse.

Not to mention their double wedding is right around the corner and there are so many things to get done on the ranch before then.

This novella is the part of the Curston Ranch story I’ve been dying to tell. Enjoy the peek at what happens after the happily ever after and see if you can pick out the Easter Eggs for future books.