First published 2014
Hadleigh Stevens stands at the altar at eighteen, ready to marry, when Tripp Galloway disrupts the ceremony. Ten years later, she has moved past that humiliation and joined her single friends in a marriage pact to find suitable husbands. Hadleigh believes she can execute her plan without interference from Tripp. She discovers otherwise when he returns to Bliss County. Tripp comes back to rescue his father's failing ranch after his divorce, seeking to rebuild his connection to cowboy life. He tells himself he wants no part of marriage again, especially not with his best friend's younger sister. Yet Tripp cannot forget Hadleigh, and she finds herself drawn to him more powerfully than before. Their past collision set them on separate paths, but their present attraction threatens to upend her careful plans and his determined bachelor status.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, second-chance
Setting: Bliss County
Period: 10 years later
384 pages · Kindle Edition · Harlequin HQN