The Simple Life

Brooklyn Manning had a life she considered perfect, until it fell apart. Her pride bruised, she leaves New York and returns to White Timber, Montana, the tiny hometown she left behind. Gone are the late-night taco trucks, the designer shops within walking distance and the cab drivers she could shout at in traffic.

Her homecoming gets worse the moment Clint Hastings walks into the room and insults her. He was her arch nemesis in high school, a nerdy computer whiz the teenage Brooklyn mocked without mercy. Now he is a cowboy, and a good-looking one.

Brooklyn has no intention of backing down, so she trades barbs with him just as she always did. Twelve years apart have not changed the way the two of them needle each other. What has changed is how much they enjoy it.

This is a contemporary romance with an enemies-to-lovers setup and a small-town Montana backdrop. The tone is comic and irreverent, driven by quick banter and crude humor, with a big-city woman forced to start over in a place she thought she had outgrown.