Marin Thomas

Ruby Baxter never has had much luck with “family.” Her father became distant when she was sixteen, and things didn’t improve before he died. When Ruby got pregnant at seventeen, she hoped the father of baby Mia would stick around —he didn’t. And that was followed by years of relationships that Ruby ended as soon as the men got too serious. But now Ruby is thirty-one and convinced she is failing her daughter. Mia is the one good thing in her life and Ruby hopes that a move to Kansas and a fresh start will fix whatever is broken between them. 

 

But the road to redemption takes a detour. Hank McArthur, the biological father she never knew existed, would like her to claim her inheritance: a dusty oil ranch just outside of Unforgiven, Oklahoma.

 

As far as first impressions go, the gruff, emotionally distant rancher isn't what Ruby hoped for in a father. Yet Hank seems to have a gift for rehabilitating abused horses—and for reaching Mia. And if Ruby wants to entertain the possibility of a relationship with Joe Dawson, the ranch foreman, she must find a way to open her heart to the very first man who left her behind.