A rancher. A city girl. A secret past. An unsteady future. A slow burn sweet romance tale of heart, hope, and healing.
Maddy Rochester is bound and determined to make her way in the world without "daddy's money" and despite her mother's critical eye. When her boyfriend ditches her for a sexy, confident woman, and the marketing firm she works for shuts down overnight, Maddy decides to go all in on starting her own freelance business. Now she's stuck with her first and only lead-a ranch in the middle-of-nowhere Missouri with grumpy Todd Whitman, a fifth generation rancher left with a mountain of debt and decaying infrastructure after the death of his father. If she can do this job successfully, there's an enormous lead in California that just might launch her business.
C.J. Hayes dreams of nothing but leaving the family farm and all that comes with it. Even though that may mean leaving her best friend, Wyatt Whitman, and her little sister, Janie. She longs to be free of her father's tyranny and shed her roots. But freedom, like all things worthwhile, comes with a price.
Past and present collide in this tale of two women seeking to forge their way ahead after family trauma and the pain of feeling unloved and unwanted. Will Maddy finally have the courage to fight for what she wants? Can C.J. repair the damage she did to her own flesh and blood? 'Til the Cows Come Home is a hard look at how the actions of our past send ripples into places we never could have imagined.
