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It follows Cole Harding, an ex-military businessman with a lot of baggage, and Violet, a young jockey at Gold Rush Ranch — two people who first connected anonymously online.

The leads previously knew each other only through anonymous online chats; they then collide in person in small-town Ruby Creek, where an injury forces Violet to recover at Cole's place.

It's the second full-length novel in the Gold Rush Ranch series, following Off to the Races.

Forced proximity, second-chance/reconnection, hurt-comfort caretaking after an injury, and the found-family atmosphere of the ranch.

Yes. It's an open-door contemporary romance, consistent with the heat level across Elsie Silver's books.

Each book centers on a different couple and works as a standalone, but reading in publication order (starting with Off to the Races) gives the clearest picture of the recurring Ruby Creek cast and the ranch's ongoing storylines.