Cash

He walked away from rodeo glory for a quiet life...but silence is the last thing he gets when she comes home for the holidays.

Cash Young has spent years chasing championship belt buckles on the bull riding circuit-and one too many nights wondering who, if anyone, would miss him-but now he's traded his career for house-sitting a friend's stunning Dog Valley home. His dreams of a cutting horse operation are finally coming into focus. His family? Slowly healing. His faith? Still a work in progress.

What he didn't plan on was Lark McClellan storming through the door with her little Yorkie and her big attitude and turning his time of peaceful healing and reflection completely upside down.

Home from college for Thanksgiving, Lark has a full plate: finals stress, a forgettable ex-boyfriend she refuses to talk about, and a grandmother whose memory is slipping fast. She has no idea what to do with her life, though she's only one semester away from her college degree.

She knows Cash will be at the house, and he's as magnetic as he is irritating. He's infuriatingly easygoing, impossibly good at baking and cooking, and way too good at seeing past all her carefully constructed defenses.

But even as her older brothers descend upon them, Lark can't help but want a real relationship with Cash. She'll be home for a week, and then back for a full month over the Christmas holiday, and their heated clashes ignite sparks both are thrilled about.

As Cash falls hard for his best friend's younger sister and wonders if she'll finally be the one to put him first, Lark still wonders what her life is supposed to be.

With Cash's shadowed insecurities still haunting him and Lark's future up in the air, can these two guarded hearts learn to trust God...and each other? Or will their differences and the sacrifices that must be made to be together keep them apart?