HE’S LOVED HER FOR THIRTEEN YEARS.
SHE HAS NO IDEA.
AND HIS TIME FOR KEEPING QUIET JUST RAN OUT.
Olivia Bateman has a problem.
His name is Owen Royston.
For thirteen years, she’s tried to figure out the quiet, maddening cowboy who lives nine miles down the road. There have been looks. Moments. Enough almosts to keep a woman wondering and never enough to give her an answer.
So when her mother announces she’s selling the Bateman ranch, Olivia decides she’s done with more than cattle, fences, and the only home she’s ever known.
She’s done waiting for Owen too.
Except there’s one thing she needs before she can let him go.
The truth.
She drives straight to his ranch, looks him in the eye, and gives him the easiest opening a man could ask for.
Give me a reason to stay.
Owen completely blows it.
Because the truth is, Owen Royston has been hopelessly in love with Olivia since he was seventeen.
And absolutely nobody knows.
Especially Olivia.
For thirteen years, Owen has kept his feelings buried beneath an old promise, family loyalty, and the stubborn belief that wanting something doesn’t mean a man has the right to take it.
But Olivia isn’t waiting around for him to find his courage anymore.
And that becomes a problem when selling the Bateman ranch starts getting complicated.
The cattle still have to be worked. The fences still need fixing. The water beneath the ranch is disappearing. Family lines are being drawn. And the more Owen tries to help, the harder it becomes to hide exactly how much Olivia means to him.
Especially when keeping his distance stops being an option.
Thirteen years of longing can make for one hell of a slow burn.
And when it finally catches, it catches hot.
But Olivia has spent too long surviving on maybes.
She doesn’t need Owen to quietly fix another problem.
She doesn’t need another moment that leaves her wondering what the hell just happened between them.
And she doesn’t need a man who loves her only when nobody else can see it.
If Owen wants a future with Olivia, he’s going to have to do something far more terrifying than taking on his family, risking his father’s anger, or putting his own name on the line.
He’s going to have to open his mouth.
Because this time Olivia isn’t asking whether Owen Royston wants her.
She’s asking whether he has the courage to choose her.
Out loud.
In public.
No fences between them.
A slow-burn contemporary cowboy romance loaded with secret longing, scorching chemistry, ranching life, family drama, small-town interference, old promises, stubborn hearts, and thirteen years of feelings that are finally about to become everybody’s business.
Owen Royston is a man of few words.
Unfortunately for him, Olivia Bateman needs the words.
Genre: Romance
SHE HAS NO IDEA.
AND HIS TIME FOR KEEPING QUIET JUST RAN OUT.
Olivia Bateman has a problem.
His name is Owen Royston.
For thirteen years, she’s tried to figure out the quiet, maddening cowboy who lives nine miles down the road. There have been looks. Moments. Enough almosts to keep a woman wondering and never enough to give her an answer.
So when her mother announces she’s selling the Bateman ranch, Olivia decides she’s done with more than cattle, fences, and the only home she’s ever known.
She’s done waiting for Owen too.
Except there’s one thing she needs before she can let him go.
The truth.
She drives straight to his ranch, looks him in the eye, and gives him the easiest opening a man could ask for.
Give me a reason to stay.
Owen completely blows it.
Because the truth is, Owen Royston has been hopelessly in love with Olivia since he was seventeen.
And absolutely nobody knows.
Especially Olivia.
For thirteen years, Owen has kept his feelings buried beneath an old promise, family loyalty, and the stubborn belief that wanting something doesn’t mean a man has the right to take it.
But Olivia isn’t waiting around for him to find his courage anymore.
And that becomes a problem when selling the Bateman ranch starts getting complicated.
The cattle still have to be worked. The fences still need fixing. The water beneath the ranch is disappearing. Family lines are being drawn. And the more Owen tries to help, the harder it becomes to hide exactly how much Olivia means to him.
Especially when keeping his distance stops being an option.
Thirteen years of longing can make for one hell of a slow burn.
And when it finally catches, it catches hot.
But Olivia has spent too long surviving on maybes.
She doesn’t need Owen to quietly fix another problem.
She doesn’t need another moment that leaves her wondering what the hell just happened between them.
And she doesn’t need a man who loves her only when nobody else can see it.
If Owen wants a future with Olivia, he’s going to have to do something far more terrifying than taking on his family, risking his father’s anger, or putting his own name on the line.
He’s going to have to open his mouth.
Because this time Olivia isn’t asking whether Owen Royston wants her.
She’s asking whether he has the courage to choose her.
Out loud.
In public.
No fences between them.
A slow-burn contemporary cowboy romance loaded with secret longing, scorching chemistry, ranching life, family drama, small-town interference, old promises, stubborn hearts, and thirteen years of feelings that are finally about to become everybody’s business.
Owen Royston is a man of few words.
Unfortunately for him, Olivia Bateman needs the words.
Genre: Romance
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