She’s ready to start living her life. He wants to be his own man. When fate brings them together, will they find a home on the range?

Kitty Langford craves independence. After spending her youth raising her siblings, the fierce older sister longs for the freedom she gave up. But when she leaves Oklahoma for Texas to at last taste independence, the spunky gal finds herself stranded on the side of the road…until a handsome local with kind eyes and capable hands changes everything.

Wayne Kincaid yearns to be seen as an equal to his accomplished cousins. Though he mortgaged his ranch to pay for school, the soft-spoken vet has a solid side-business raising animals to supply fur for the artisan yarn industry. He’s determined to both get out of debt and prove himself. He never expected that Kitty holds the key to making his mark.

As Kitty falls hard for the dependable animal doc, her mischievous siblings discover her whereabouts and play a prank that backfires badly. And after two of his prize goats go missing, Wayne fears his new love could be hiding a relationship-ending secret. Can the couple comb through their tangled troubles to find happily ever after under the Lone Star sky?

If you like self-assured women, strong and silent men, and steamy chemistry, then you’ll adore Bonnie Phelps’s beautifully woven tale.