My dad and I have been estranged for years. But as his only living relative, it’s no surprise I inherit his massive cattle ranch when he dies. Something that is a surprise? The stipulation in his will, which requires me to live on the ranch and actively manage it for a year before I can access my inheritance money.
I haven’t stepped foot in Hartsville, Texas, population one thousand, since my parents split when I was six. Now a city girl through and through, I never imagined having to move back to cowboy country. But I need the money to invest in my company, and a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. There’s just one giant roadblock to my plan: the ranch’s foreman, grumpy cowboy Cash Rivers. I don’t care how good he looks in his Wranglers and chaps. He’s rude, he’s growly, and he wants me gone. I’d fire him in a heartbeat, but I need this cowboy to teach me the ropes of running a ranch. We’re enemies from the get-go. But turns out, Cash is really good at this ranch thing. He’s got strong hands, an intelligent mind, and let’s just say everything really is bigger in Texas. Working alongside him leads to conversations beneath the stars. Throw in some cheek-to-cheek dancing at the local dive bar, and it all feels so right that I start to fall in love with life on the ranch. And maybe with him, too.
But my stay in Hartsville is only temporary. And you know what they say about cowboys: they may break horses, but they also break hearts. If only Cash hadn’t already lassoed mine…
Mollie Morgan is a sharp, city-savvy entrepreneur running a luxury boot company in Texas. But her world flips when she learns that her estranged, cowboy father left her his Texas cattle ranch in his will, with conditions. To inherit, she has to live and work on the ranch for one year.
Enter Cash Rivers, the rugged, broody ranch foreman who practically ran the place and expected to inherit it himself. He’s angry, hurt, and not at all thrilled about training the “city girl” who knows nothing about cattle, mud, or managing a ranch. He’d devoted his life to the ranch. The ranch was part of his soul, engrained in his DNA. Mollie’s father was the father figure he so desperately needed in his life, the one person he could always turn to for advice or reassurance when things became too hard. But now? He was forced to share HIS ranch with a woman who knew next to nothing about ranching.
But Mollie is determined. She needs her inheritance to save her fledgling boot company, and she will stop at nothing to prove her worth. She has grit, intricately woven with grace and a little bit of sass.
“We locked eyes again, in the dusty barn, and even the cattle seemed to hush. His glare was ice—like he was daring me to prove I belonged.”
From the beginning, Mollie and Cash are like fire and gasoline. Their banter is sharp, their glares are lethal, and the tension between them is undeniable. But under all that heat is the mutual feeling of loneliness and grief they don’t know how to face. Cash carries deep emotional scars from his own family trauma, and he can’t bear to be hurt again. Mollie meanwhile battles her own resentment towards the man who left her without an apology. The man Cash knew and the man Mollie knew are not one in the same. Why did Cash get to see the emotional side of Mollie’s father that she never had access to? Their journey is just as much about healing and forgiveness as it is about falling in love.
And boy, do they fall HARD.
Their volatile connection is cemented not by words, but by proximity. Dusty boots, smoldering gazes, and an unspoken challenge in every glance. The unfiltered electricity that crackles every time they move together on the ranch is captivating. It’s a slow-burn. It’s emotionally raw. It’s steamy, heartfelt, and filled with longing.
“Don’t what? Tell you that I was wrong? That you’re everything I thought you weren’t? Big-hearted and generous and smart as hell, and, yeah, fuckin’ beautiful? Sexy as hell?” Cash’s eyes graze my face. “Tell me to go, then. Tell me to let you go, and I will. But you gotta say the words, honey.”
But the path to happily ever after is never smooth. Old wounds are ripped open. Their growing trust is tested. Mollie must decide whether the ranch and Cash are truly what she wants, or if it’s all just a distraction from the life she thought she lost.
“You’re a cowgirl now, honey. And cowgirls can’t be tamed. Wouldn’t dare to try.”
If you’re into spicy, heartfelt, all-in cowboy romance, Cash is the book to saddle up with. And if you love it (spoiler: you will), good news awaits: the rest of the Lucky River Ranch series follows Cash’s brothers! Wyatt and Sawyer are out now, with Duke following on December 2nd, 2025 and Ryder out next year, on April 7th, 2026.