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Wishing for the Rancher’s Love
by Jody Hedlund
Book 5 in the High Country Ranch series.
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As the only one of her siblings who hasn’t married, Clementine Oakley feels left behind. But she does her best to focus on her candy-making business, hoping to someday have a shop of her own instead of a lone counter in Worth’s General Store. Giving and outgoing, she makes friends with everyone in town—except for one person, the store owner’s son . . . Grady Worth. Grady isn’t quite sure why he can’t get along with Clementine, but every time they’re together, all they do is bicker. When his widowed dad proposes a contest to encourage Grady to find love, Clementine is the last person Grady considers as an option.
A stalker plot brings the dangers faced by an independent businesswoman into an otherwise close-knit town. Clementine and Grady’s pretend engagement gradually requires real trust, and the series closes by connecting romantic commitment with communal protection and the courage to confront violence openly.