About the book

The cupcake hit Asa Mitchell square in the face, and Daisy knew she was in trouble.

When she pointed blindly at a map and left her entire life and her six overprotective brothers behind, Asa Mitchell was not on her radar. The plan was a fresh start. Someplace where no one could tell her who to be. She thought she found that on the Stone Creek ranch as Silas Mitchell’s housekeeper.

Then, she walks in on his son, late at night in the darkened kitchen, and pelts him with buttercream. With Asa home, the peace and quiet she thought she needed to find herself evaporates.

Guarded and grumpy, Asa is quietly imploding under the weight of a life he desperately wants to escape. But the woman who throws cupcakes and yogurt containers at him doesn’t know who he is, nor does she care. Somehow, that makes ignoring her, and the skip to his heart every time she sends a glare his way, all the more impossible.

What starts as explosive tension—all sharp words and stolen glances—becomes something neither of them anticipated: refuge. As Daisy rebuilds her life on the ranch, Asa discovers the guarded walls he's spent years constructing don't stand a chance against her warmth.

But when his old life catches up with them, the tabloid cameras turn their forced proximity into scandal. Her brothers descend on Montana ready for battle, and now Asa and Daisy must choose: keep running from what they feel or fight for the one thing worth staying for.