JAKE

Julia Letts is beautiful, brilliant—and stubborn as hell.

I want her champion stallion. She refuses to sell. Offers stud rights instead, like that’s a compromise I can live with.

So we head out on a hike—her idea of “neutral ground”—to talk it through. Then a storm rolls in, and we’re forced to take cover in an old hunting cabin.

We’re soaked. Freezing. Sharing body heat turns into something hotter—something I can’t forget.

But when morning comes, she shuts me down like it never happened. Like I never happened.

That’s new for me. I don’t give up easy—especially not on something that felt real.

But this is Poplar Springs. She’s the local vet. I run livestock. We can’t exactly avoid each other. Not when I keep showing up at her clinic—and not just with excuses.

And then? She drops the bombshell. She’s pregnant.

Now the stallion’s the last thing on my mind.

I want her. Her trust. Her future.

And I’ll fight for it.

JULIA

Jake Thorne is impossible—persistent, infuriating, and way too charming for his own good.

I knew better than to blur the line that night in the cabin. But I did it anyway.

Now I’m pregnant.

Telling him wasn’t part of the plan. But plans don’t survive long in a town like this.

He says he wants in. Says he’s not going anywhere.

But I’ve built my life by standing on my own.

Letting him in? That’s the real risk.

And I’m not sure I’m brave enough to take it.