Marley Sutton has a brand-new veterinary degree and no job offers. So she takes the one nobody else wants-live-in vet at the Broken Rail, a failing cattle ranch four hours from the nearest town.
Jackson Creed is fifty-one, twice widowed, and about as welcoming as barbed wire. He doesn't want a girl fresh out of school telling him how to run his herd. He also can't fix his own fence line anymore, and he knows it.
By spring they know each other's silences. By summer they know everything else.
But Jackson's son wants the ranch sold, and Marley has one card left to play-and playing it means going behind the back of the only man she's ever loved.
