This book is a friends to lovers western historical romance.
School teacher Tori Henderson values her independence and has no use for a husband. When she finds herself the legal guardian of her two nieces, two nephews, and facing eviction from their Kansas home, she enters the 1889 Oklahoma Land Run and confronts a new set of challenges.
The biggest obstacle is her new neighbor, cocky lawyer Jesse Cochran, the son of a whore and a man determined to put his past behind him and start a new life and family of his own. Despite the undeniable attraction between them, Tori is determined to keep him at arm's length, but a family emergency brings them together and they declare a truce. Which turns into so much more..
Can Jesse win Tori's heart after a series of devastating, unplanned events, or will tragedy tear them apart forever?