When a gorgeous city girl’s junkheap of a car breaks down near my family's ranch, I instantly want to protect her and her daughter. I want her trust. That’s hard for a woman on the run from a violent ex. Hope may look like she’s never worn cowboy boots in her life, but she quickly becomes indispensable both to my family, and to me. She still insists she's leaving as soon as her car is fixed. There's no way. Deep down, I have to admit I don’t just want to offer the beautiful single mother safe refuge. I also want her. Her body, her sweetness, her secrets. And that’s not on the table. Not this summer. Not ever. If I want to make the sweetest woman I’ve ever met feel safe, I might have to let her go, even though it tears me up inside to think of her never looking back to see just how much I need to claim her little family as mine, forever.