When a city girl inherits her estranged father's sprawling Texas cattle ranch, she has to actually live there for a year to claim her fortune—and wouldn't you know it, the grumpy, impossibly attractive foreman Cash Rivers is determined to make her fail. But as she trades her heels for boots and learns the ropes from this growly cowboy, late-night conversations under the stars and swaying together at the local honky-tonk start to feel dangerously like home. With every stolen glance and heated moment, falling for Cash seems inevitable—but she's got an expiration date on her stay in Hartsville, and this cowboy's got all the makings of a heartbreaker. Can she find a way to keep both her inheritance and her heart intact?

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Sultry country nights meet smoldering tension—think Chris Stapleton's raspy intensity, Colter Wall's raw storytelling, and Sabrina Carpenter's defiant energy. Layer in slow-burn sensuality with Hozier and The Lumineers. Gritty, magnetic, dangerous attraction under starlight.