Hayes Wilder returns to Honey Hollow before his grandfather’s death and is stunned to learn that the sprawling Wilder Estate has been left to him.
The one thing he wants is more time with the man he loves, but protecting that legacy from the wrong hands means marrying quickly enough to satisfy the will.
Catherine Foster, reigning Miss Virginia and a former Honey Hollow native who once had a childhood crush on Hayes, is buried in medical debt after her mother’s death.
They reconnect at the funeral and impulsively agree that he will pay what she owes if she becomes his wife.
Getting to know each other as adults after the wedding proves harder than planned, with the whole town watching and his half brother hunting for any weakness that could undo the marriage.
What they fail to calculate is how much they share—enough for this cowboy to fall in love for real.
