Done and Dusted
Emmy Ryder returns to Rebel Blue Ranch in the small town of Meadowlark, Wyoming, to recover after a fall from her horse rattled her nerve and her heart. Waiting for her is Luke Brooks, her older brother's best friend, a gruff cowboy who has spent years pretending not to notice her. The two of them clash and circle, all sharp banter over shared history, while the Ryder family and the ranch pull Emmy back into a life she left behind. Luke keeps his feelings buried until keeping them there stops being possible, and the slow thaw between them turns a homecoming into a reckoning about what they both actually want.
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