In this small town, fake-dating romance, a cowboy and a veterinarian realise that their scheme to get a meddling town and a cruel family off their backs isn’t the only way they can help each other …
 
BEAU
Breaking up with Honey McBride was supposed to be my fresh start. Six months later, though, I’ve had a disastrous date with the new veterinarian, the Gumtree Valley Matchmaking Service badger me every chance they get, and the anxiety that has me in its clutches doesn’t look like it’s going away any time soon. As I watch my brother get the life I always wanted, I’ve accepted my fate of being a lonely cowboy. Until she comes back into my life, with her sassy Highland cow. The girl who, despite our chequered history, agrees to fake date me and fool Gumtree Valley with the biggest deception. Except I’m made to be the fool when I realise I want Emma Callaghan in my life—for real.
 
EMMA
I didn’t need more complications in my life. I’d already left behind a cheating ex and a toxic family in the city, as well as my beloved dog, who was the collateral in my rebellion. One bad date with Beau Hayes should’ve been enough to stay away from him. But a tragic event has me seeing him in a different light, and before I know it, we’re agreeing to a mutually beneficial ruse. For me, it’s to get my mother to stop pushing me towards my cheating ex. It’s crazy. It’s something that belongs in the cowboy romance books on my bedside table. Beau Hayes is better than any fictional cowboy I’ve read, though. As he shows me what it could be like to be loved by him, and I begin to imagine what life could be like on Double Q Ranch, the lines between real and fake begin to blur …