Nine years ago, Lars Hale was thrown off his uncle's ranch for being gay. Now the old man is dead, and his will leaves Lars the Double J and $3.5 million on one condition: he has to win the Red Creek rodeo on Smoke, the stallion that crippled the last man who rode him. The will allows only one trainer: Jack Morrow, the ranch's rough, straight foreman, who has spent twenty years proving he only wants women. Lars has two weeks to learn how to stay on for eight seconds, and he plans to spend them getting under Jack's skin. But a ruthless neighbor is fighting for the land, and Jack is hiding the truth about the night Lars was driven away. Can a man who has spent his whole life pretending finally risk everything for love?
