THE STUBBORN HEARTS CONTRACT

Pine Ridge Hearts Series - Book One

Six months, fifty thousand dollars, and zero complications—until love rewrites the contract.

When Korean-American food truck owner Ariel Chen’s engine dies in a ranch-supply parking lot, she thinks her day can’t get worse. Then she meets Levi Calloway—methodical rancher, former Army soldier, and the most frustratingly helpful man in Wyoming.

Levi has six months to find a wife or lose his family ranch to an archaic inheritance clause. Ariel needs fifty thousand dollars in four months to keep custody of her brilliant nine-year-old son, Nate. Their solution? A fake engagement that’s purely business.

What could go wrong?

Everything, as it turns out. Between Nate’s too-smart questions, Levi’s ex-girlfriend’s suspicious helpfulness, and a custody battle that threatens to destroy their carefully constructed arrangement, their “simple” contract becomes impossibly complicated.

The real problem isn’t just the legal pressure or the nosy small-town community that sees right through their charade. It’s the way Levi instinctively grounds Ariel during her panic attacks, and how she challenges him to believe he deserves happiness after Afghanistan. Their fake marriage is becoming dangerously real at the exact moment when everyone—including Ariel’s manipulative ex-husband—seems determined to tear it apart.

In Pine Ridge, Wyoming, some contracts are written on paper. The best ones are written on the heart.

A clean contemporary romance featuring marriage of convenience, found family, small-town charm, and authentic military heroes who know that true strength lies in protecting the people you love.