If you love Susan Mallery, Kristan Higgins, or Rachel Gibson, don't miss the start of this captivating small-town romance series! Laurel Falls, Montana, features spectacular mountain scenery--but it takes a rugged cowboy to convince one woman to slow down and enjoy the view. Rafferty Hamilton doesn't plan on putting down roots anytime soon. With her divorce final, the hotel heiress has left Manhattan behind to scout new locations for her family's chain of resorts. Which is why it's so frustrating to be stranded in Laurel Falls while a good-looking, slow-talking, Stetson-wearing mechanic takes his sweet time with her overheated coupe. A decorated vet who paid his dues in Afghanistan, Trace Black can fix anything with an engine and get it revving--even Rafferty's ridiculous sports car. He's couldn't say the same for the knockout driver, who looks like she's never gripped a gear shaft in her life. Women like Rafferty don't usually stick around...

The one secret she can't stand to keep is the one she can't afford to tell. The perfect little rich girl, River Pearl Sutton has always done what her family expected of her. She'd become the perfect little beauty queen, the perfect child model and now her global success locks her into a life she never really chose. Coming home for the summer to prepare for the Founder's Day Festival, a celebration of her lauded ancestor, she is tasked by her father to write a speech to be delivered at the end of the party. Returning to Hope Parish brings her back into close proximity with sweet-talking, skirt-chasing Braxton Outlaw, the boy who always seemed immune to her charms in high school. But now he looks at her with those challenging blue eyes, both intimidating and seductive at the same time. Using research of her family lineage and his as way to get close to this bad boy, they fall into a hot, torrid affair. She stumbles across a terrible secret that could bring to ruin not only her reputation, but the reputation and standing of her family. But when her infatuation with Brax grows into something that she can't live without, she must decide what to do. Keep the secret and lose Brax or destroy her family and lose them. It's an awful, heartrending perfect dilemma.