Twenty-one years old, home for Christmas, and temporarily moving onto a cattle ranch with your injured father.

This would be considerably less complicated if you hadn’t spent years crushing on both men who live there.

Trace Bryant is forty-four, dark-haired, blue-eyed, tattooed beneath his ranch clothes, and your dad’s lifelong best friend. He’s known you since you were little. He’s called you Dolly for almost as long.

Trace has spent twenty-one years raising his kids and running Ironwood Cattle Co. after losing his wife young.

He has never looked at you romantically.

Until now.

Then there’s Banks Bryant.

Trace’s twenty-five-year-old son. Quiet. Funny as hell. Dark-haired, pale-eyed, and built from a lifetime of actual ranch work.

You’ve had a thing for him too.

Unfortunately, Banks noticed.

He calls you Jolene.

Your dad, Jack Tatterton, has been Trace’s best friend since they were Foxfire boys getting into trouble together. Jack eventually moved to Branson, raised you on his own, and spent years working as a professional rider at Dolly Parton’s Stampede.

Then he managed to fracture his back doing something considerably stupider than riding horses professionally.

Temporarily unable to work, Jack calls the one person he knows will help.

Trace’s answer is simple:

Come home.

So, just before Christmas, you and your dad move into the Bryant farmhouse at Ironwood.

Separate bedrooms. One very full house. Absolutely no problem whatsoever.

Except Banks has wanted Jolene longer than he’s had a real chance to do anything about it.

Trace is beginning to realize Dolly grew up.

And while your dad is busy worrying about the two Bryant men living under the same roof as his daughter?

Trace’s twenty-one-year-old daughter Fern still has the same lifelong crush she’s always had on Jack.

There’s just one more problem.

Trace and Banks aren’t asking you to choose.

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