What We Keep

I know you've heard about me. <BR>The middle Hayden brother, the one whose wife ran off. <BR>I'm not the short-tempered new owner of the Hayden Cattle Company, like my big brother. I'm not the wild stallion with a mystery ax to grind, like my little brother. <BR>I'm Warner Hayden. Single-father, second-in-command of my family's ranching dynasty, and my steady, secure world is about to get rocked by America's sweetheart. <BR>I'd heard Tenley Roberts was coming to our small town to film her latest movie, I just didn't think she'd be driving a 1976 Bronco. So, no, I didn't know the identity of the beautiful stranger I helped on the side of the road, but I figured it out a few days later. And I haven't been the same since. <BR>Tenley is unexpectedly funny, and complicated. I'm recently divorced, fearful of the way she makes my heart beat double-time, and gun-shy.<BR>Despite all this, we're too wrapped up in each other to care. <BR>But then things with Tenley take an unforeseen turn, and everyone assumes I'll take my licks the way I always have. <BR>Not this time. <BR>Maybe I am the nice, dependable brother. <BR>But I'm also a Hayden, born and bred. <BR>And this bull has horns.

Raw, emotional, and compelling, the final standalone in the Hayden Family series by bestselling author Jennifer Millikin will leave you breathless. I've made a mess of things again. Not that anybody is surprised. After I'm politely asked to withdraw from college for my antics, I return home to my family's cattle ranch. The sweeping views, the towering pine trees, and the whisper of the wind remind me I belong on this land. My heart is in the alpine air, my soul mixed into the soil. All I've ever wanted is to run the ranch alongside my oldest brother, but my family refuses to see me as anything but a walking disaster. If I'm going to show them what I'm capable of, I have to prove myself. Lucky for me, I'm a Hayden through and through. I'll dirty my hands in more ways than one.That includes the man who showed up in town again after all these years. Sawyer Bennett. I've heard the stories about his family, and they don't scare me. Our attraction is undeniable, and the best part? Sawyer looks at me with fresh eyes. When I'm with him, I get to be the woman I'm fighting to become. And I'm learning just how much I want to be that woman.But then I make the ultimate mistake: I utter the word perfect. I should've known better. There's nowhere to go but down after that. And down we go, until we hit rock bottom.Sawyer unearths a long-buried secret, and challenges everything my brothers and I grew up believing. Nobody is surprised I've brought disaster to our doorstep again, but it's not over.Because when it rains out on the ranch? It pours.