Wrangling with My Ex's Brother
(2026)(The first book in the Stardust Trails Ranch series)
A novel by Emily Oberton
I’m stunned when I inherit my grandpa’s Texas Hill Country ranch. I’m downright floored to learn he left the other half to Colby Stanton: rodeo clown, town sweetheart, and brother of the man who broke my heart.
I know spreadsheets, balance sheets, and hostile takeovers. I do not know the first thing about ranch management, and I have zero intention of learning. So my plan is simple. Sell my half, cash out, and get back to my life...the one that doesn’t include ranches, rodeos, or anyone with the last name Stanton.
There’s just one problem. Colby won’t sell. And thanks to Grandpa’s will, I can’t sell without him.
So now I’m tethered to the same patch of Texas dirt as a man whose whole job is making people smile. He’s charming. He’s gorgeous. He’s so funny my stomach aches from laughing.
But he’s also a Stanton, which is a last name that should come with a warning stamped across his forehead in ALL CAPS with five exclamation points.
I can handle a difficult client negotiation. What I can’t seem to handle is that perfect mouth. Those miles-wide shoulders. The unwelcome, entirely inconvenient suspicion that Colby might be nothing like his brother at all.
There’s something else, too. I investigate financial records for a living, and Grandpa’s don’t add up. Money went somewhere it shouldn’t have, and everyone in town seems to know why. Except me.
I came here to settle an estate and leave this town for good.
I did not come here to fall for the cowboy who’s determined to convince me to stay.
Wrangling With My Ex’s Brother is a sweet, closed-door, small-town romcom with a Texas-sized heart. Opposites attract, forced proximity, and one very reluctant cowgirl-in-training.
Genre: Romance
I know spreadsheets, balance sheets, and hostile takeovers. I do not know the first thing about ranch management, and I have zero intention of learning. So my plan is simple. Sell my half, cash out, and get back to my life...the one that doesn’t include ranches, rodeos, or anyone with the last name Stanton.
There’s just one problem. Colby won’t sell. And thanks to Grandpa’s will, I can’t sell without him.
So now I’m tethered to the same patch of Texas dirt as a man whose whole job is making people smile. He’s charming. He’s gorgeous. He’s so funny my stomach aches from laughing.
But he’s also a Stanton, which is a last name that should come with a warning stamped across his forehead in ALL CAPS with five exclamation points.
I can handle a difficult client negotiation. What I can’t seem to handle is that perfect mouth. Those miles-wide shoulders. The unwelcome, entirely inconvenient suspicion that Colby might be nothing like his brother at all.
There’s something else, too. I investigate financial records for a living, and Grandpa’s don’t add up. Money went somewhere it shouldn’t have, and everyone in town seems to know why. Except me.
I came here to settle an estate and leave this town for good.
I did not come here to fall for the cowboy who’s determined to convince me to stay.
Wrangling With My Ex’s Brother is a sweet, closed-door, small-town romcom with a Texas-sized heart. Opposites attract, forced proximity, and one very reluctant cowgirl-in-training.
Genre: Romance
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