Dr. Brynn Donnelly has three weeks to prove that a creek-dwelling frog found nowhere else on Earth still exists, before a water-rights sale the Holt family does not even know about wipes out her research site.
Stetson Holt has spent his life as a hunting guide who stays needed and stays on the margins, never quite believing he belongs among the family that only half accepted him.
He has no room for trespassers, least of all a determined scientist he might want.
Brynn treats him as the man who knows the land rather than a bastard son still earning his place on it, and he cannot look away from a woman who cries over the frog her research forces her to take.
If his father ruins the water that rare habitat depends on, Stetson stands to lose the creek, the woman who treated him as if he belonged, and the future Brynn may already be carrying.
