Casey Ray. Youngest son of Buck Ray. Still single five years after graduating high school. He's not worried about getting married. He's heard it from his dad more than once that the right woman will come along when the time is right. The rest of his family has branched out and added onto the ranch with substantial value. Blake Michaels, just a week after giving birth to a little boy she moves to a house near a ranch. It's one of the smallest country houses and for rent. It's got a big enough backyard for her little boy to grow up with a pet horse that she's grown up with.

Jax Ray is the second oldest of Buck Ray's boys. He looked up to his older brother for help when he needed it. The topic of school has never been his favorite. At age sixteen he's been to the point of being expelled from school more than once, but is good as gold at the ranch. His parents can't homeschool him when they have to help run the ranch. Mikayla is the oldest out of three. Her mother died when she was very young. Now she's got a stepmother and her twin brothers in her life. After moving to Marshall she's hoping for a fresh start.

Rylin loves being out on the rodeo circuit. Now traveling with Wyatt's girlfriend is fun as it is. She knows Rob personally and thinks of him as another older brother. She barrel races and helps out with the other horses traveling with her and her traveling buddy. Jase Hunter, son of Max Hunter. His last girlfriend was spotted cheating on him as he talked to someone about another ordeal. Now he's usually too drunk to care about girls and what the other cowboys think.

Wyatt Ray, son of Colt and Hedli Ray. Right out of high school he joined up with the military. His cousin Logan just went off to college with his fiancée and he just got back from another long deployment. He's thinking of joining the rodeo circuit at age twenty five and compete like his parents did. Cassidy Smith, daughter of Nathaniel and Izzy Smith, grew up on the rodeo circuit and knows it like the back of her hand. She knows the drill when it's time to earn the money. Traveling with horses and keeping them healthy is one part of her task. Another is taking care of herself. When a retired military officer comes into the picture rodeoing like one person she wish she knew. Colt Ray. She ropes, barrel races, and rides bareback broncs. What will happen between the two?

Tessica Raleigh, after moving to small town Texas from the outskirts of Dodge City, Kansas she doesn't expect much out of the Podunk town. Her family harvests wheat and corn yearly. Her safe place is in the cab of the combine or a tractor. Plowing and harvesting the annual crops. She has virtually no time for a boyfriend at all. Logan Ray, his dad and uncles run the ranch he's known for his whole life. Sophomore year went perfectly for him. He has no worries going into junior year, except his friends keep bugging him to get a girl.

Zach is the youngest of the Ray brothers. After meeting Ali he's been drinking and has been trouble to his brothers'. Kat Edwards, the name is pretty explanatory she's related to the mayor and Sawyer, the Rays' enemy. She works at the feed store in Marshall. What happens in a bar and involves two people is anyone's guess. But Kat has a bone to pick with Zach two months after her birthday.

Bucky is the oldest of the three brothers and is happy that his brother Colt found love. Now he wants it for himself but can't seem to find it. Ali is new to town and wants to get a job working on a ranch. When she sees a sign in the feed store for help wanted at Triple R Ranch. Will she take it or find somewhere else?

Hedli Drouten never wanted anything more than to ride wild horses for a living. The only thing she's good at is holding on. She always placed first in mutton busting(sheep riding) then went on to steer riding and barrel racing by fifth grade. Her parents supported her, her entire life. Well until one beautiful Easter Sunday. Read the prologue to find out how it came to be.......

Running away from their jobs as camp counselors, Ellie and Seb embark on a road trip with unexpected turns en route to their destination - New York. ***** Camp Raukawee was meant to be where Ellie Morrison and Sebastian Lee spent their summer working as camp counselors, but they've had enough. Escaping in the middle of the night, the friends hatch a crazy plan to make their way to New York to visit Ellie's dad, who she hasn't seen since he moved five years ago. Along the way, however, a series of cities and events have the pair not only questioning their individual futures, but wondering what will happen to the growing spark between them as the countdown to adulthood begins. [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by Gillian Goulet