Cole Wylder has sworn off women.

But what's a cowboy to do when the key to rebuilding bridges with his family means faking something serious with the town sweetheart, a pretty spitfire named Jackie Moorhouse?

Jackie's waited for Cole to return home for five long years. Surely the crush she's been sporting since she was knee-high to a grasshopper no longer means anything.

There's only one way to find out, and that's to date Cole-even if it's something fake.

But what will Jackie do when their ruse starts to feel real? And what will she do when family circumstances force her to cut things off with the only man she's ever loved?

Can Cole figure out how to keep the woman his heart belongs to-the one woman who refuses to keep it?