CLINTI run my ranch with rules, systems, and walls built high enough to keep trouble out. Then Molly Morgan arrives—twenty-four, sunshine-bright, and dangerous in ways that have nothing to do with the calving season ahead. She's my intern, which makes her off-limits. She's everything soft and sweet I gave up claiming years ago, which makes her impossible to ignore. When she looks at me like I'm not just another gruff cowboy but a man worth trusting with her firsts, every rule I've built crumbles. I tell myself I'll keep my distance, but when she needs saving—from icy creek water, from my own burning need to protect what's mine—I can't stay away. She deserves better than a man with gray at his temples and scars on his hands. But when she whispers my name like a prayer, I'm lost. Now I have to follow the rules that keep us both safe, or risk everything for a love that feels like coming home. MOLLYI didn't expect Clint Creed—all brooding intensity and protective instincts wrapped in a canvas jacket that smells like cedar and winter nights. He's older, experienced, and completely off-limits as my supervisor at Creed Ranch. He's also everything I never knew I wanted. When he catches me before I fall, when he wraps me in his coat and calls me "sunshine," something awakens in me that I've been saving for the right man, the right moment, the right reason. He thinks the twenty-four years between us matter. He thinks his rules and his rough edges make him wrong for me. He's about to learn how stubborn a woman can be when she knows what she wants. And what I want is him—his careful hands, his gravel-rough voice, his heart that's been waiting for someone brave enough to claim it. Even if it means changing everything to make us possible.