Cowboy's Ride Rules

Friends to Lovers Fake Relationship Romance

I asked my best friend to fake date me.
Now I can’t tell where the lie ends and the love begins

Cassie Brooks has always been the one person I never touched.
Too smart, too sassy, and way too off-limits.

But after one bar fight and a pissed-off sponsor, my career’s hanging by a thread.
I need to clean up my image—and that means a steady girlfriend, or no championship.

So I ask Cassie.

Because she’s always been there.
Because she owes me.

Because I thought I could fake it.

Now we’re stuck together on the rodeo circuit—one bed, one story, one million ways this can go sideways.
And every time she smiles for the cameras or laughs like nothing’s changed, it gets harder to remember we’re pretending.

Especially when someone starts sabotaging me—messing with my gear, my rides, my shot at the title.

But it’s not the danger that’s got me spinning

It’s the fact I might’ve fallen for my best friend—and this time, there’s no riding it out.