Trixie Jericho is done being patted on the head. She is determined to launch her own miniature horse business and sick to death of everyone calling the idea cute instead of taking her seriously. So when rancher and sought-after freestyle horse trainer Nick Braden offers her an opportunity she cannot refuse, she seizes it, even though the bullheaded, big-muscled, motorcycle-riding cowboy lives by one ironclad rule: he does not mix business with pleasure. The trouble is, Trixie wants to jump on the opportunity almost as much as she wants to jump on him. A boot-stomping, risk-taking cowgirl who has never once backed down from a challenge, she is not about to start now, especially not with a man she wants more than her next breath. As they work side by side around the ranch, the heat between them tests every line Nick has drawn, and Trixie is more than willing to play a little dirty to get what she is after. Set in the horse country of Oak Falls among the tight-knit Braden and Jericho families, this flirtatious, opposites-attract romance pits a determined dreamer against a stubborn cowboy who never saw her coming.