Eight years ago, your father married his mother.

You were eighteen. Owen Palmer was twenty-two. Owen was just the infuriating cowboy attached to your newly blended family—the one with the dimples, the smart mouth, and an apparently lifelong commitment to getting on your nerves.

Then somewhere along the way, something changed.

Owen noticed first.

Now he’s thirty, a tattooed professional saddle bronc rider with a championship to chase, an Australian Kelpie named Bindi, an Indian motorcycle tucked inside his ridiculous motorhome, and one inconvenient secret:

He’s been in love with you for three years.

There’s just one problem.

You have a boyfriend.

Trevor Ross is thirty-five, successful, loyal, stable—and one of Owen’s closest friends.

Then the Heartland Honors Championship puts all of you on the road together for eight weeks.

Four states. Four rodeo stops. One traveling community.

You’re returning to the arena with your Paint mare, Poppy. Owen is chasing the saddle bronc championship. Trevor and Alec are competing. Your father Danny—the former bull-riding golden boy—is announcing.

And your mother Lola?

She arrives with a surprise of her own.

She’s dating Alec.

Danny’s forty-seven.

Lola’s forty-seven.

They’ve been divorced since you were an adolescent.

Danny has been happily remarried to Owen’s mother, Farrah, for eight years.

Apparently nobody bothered telling Danny that seeing his ex-wife on the arm of a thirty-five-year-old cowboy might make him lose his fucking mind.

Old chemistry starts resurfacing.

New chemistry gets harder to ignore.

Then your truck breaks down—and Owen Palmer happens to have the only rig capable of getting you and Poppy to the next stop.

Eight weeks.

Thousands of highway miles.

Rodeos. Motorcycles. Campgrounds. Bars. Old rivalries. New rivals. Family drama. A championship decided by five points.

Your parents already know what happens when enormous love and terrible decisions collide.

The question is what YOU do when history starts looking a little too familiar.

Because Owen?

He’s done pretending he doesn’t want you.

And this time, Dimples intends to give Cupcake a reason to choose him.

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