The boy next door can just stay there!

Six years—that’s how long Chantal Fields has avoided the infuriating single father next door. She and Gene Hiller will never get along, so why bother trying?

He’s her best friend’s older brother—annoying, arrogant, and the pain-in-the-ass rancher who’s driven her crazy for as long as she can remember. But when enemies with a grudge against her cop brother resurface, Gene is her literal last hope of survival.

Gene won’t rest until Chantal is safe and home where she belongs. And the instant she’s ready, he’s going to show her he’s worth any risk.

If the enemies after Charlie Fields’s baby sister don’t take her from Gene first