He’s the grumpy billionaire next door. She’s the city girl with nothing left to lose. Now he wants her land and she’s not giving it up without a fight.In just a few weeks, I lost my job, my fiancé, and every plan I thought was solid. Then came the inheritance: a rundown farmhouse in Whispers, the kind of small town I swore I’d never end up in. Renovating it was supposed to be my fresh start.

Sparring with my brooding, golden-eyed neighbor? Definitely not part of the plan.Tanner Whiteman owns the largest whiskey distillery in the country. He’s older, infuriatingly handsome, and dead set on buying my land. It’s the only thing I have to my name and I’m not selling. He says I’m not cut out for country life.

I say he’s not ready for me.But as the tension between us turns electric, the lines blur between rivalry and something far more dangerous. Every glance, every argument, every late-night encounter pulls us deeper into a connection neither of us expected and neither of us is ready for.Then the threat hits. Fast, brutal, and personal. And suddenly, the man who always gets what he wants is fighting to keep the one thing he can’t afford to lose.