Small town, second chance, grumpy sunshine cowboy romance with heart-stopping business chemistry!

Blake Thompson never imagined returning to his family’s struggling Texas ranch with his tech career in ruins. Broke and humiliated, he’s hit rock bottom—until he encounters Sophie Anderson’s irresistible smile across her bakery counter.

Sophie’s relentless optimism challenges Blake’s wounded pride, but her mouthwatering pastries and genuine warmth remind him of everything he abandoned years ago. When she approaches him about helping expand her business, Blake sees an opportunity to redeem himself in the town that’s already dismissed him as a failure.

As their late-night strategy sessions transform into stolen kisses, Blake finds himself falling for the single mother and her adorable eight-year-old daughter Emma, who believe in him when no one else will. But when his tech world scandals threaten to destroy Sophie’s dreams, Blake must choose: flee as he’s always done or finally stand and fight for the family who makes his heart feel at home again.

With Sophie’s business at stake and town gossip swirling, Blake must confront his past mistakes to protect the future he never knew he wanted. Can his city failures become his greatest strength, or will his secrets cost him the family his heart desperately needs?

THE RANCHER’S SECOND CHANCE is book 1 in the Thompson Valley Ranch series, an interconnected family saga best enjoyed when read in order. While each book features a complete romance with a guaranteed HEA, the brothers’ stories build upon each other as family secrets unfold and the ranch’s future hangs in the balance. This emotional contemporary romance features a disgraced city boy with a bruised heart, a sunshine baker with unwavering faith, an adorable child, small-town whispers, and the beginning of the Thompson brothers’ journey to love and redemption.