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Savannah Mercer has everything. At least on paper.
800,000 followers. A penthouse in the Upper East Side. Designer clothes, luxury brands and a life carefully curated for the world to watch. But when her father is arrested and her family name becomes headline news, the perfect image she's spent years building shatters overnight.
With nowhere else to go, Savannah is sent across the country to Wyoming, to live at Hollow Creek Ranch with Cara Hayes. A place where the land stretches forever, the signal barely holds and nobody cares who she was online.
Alder Creek is nothing like her world. No cameras. No influence. No control. Just dirt roads, early mornings, and people who can see straight through her.
Especially Rhett Hayes.
Rancher's son. Local football star. The boy who makes it immediately clear she doesn't belong here. Arrogant, infuriating, and impossible to ignore, Rhett treats her like a problem dropped into his life and he has no interest in fixing her.
But Rhett isn't the only one watching her.
Jace Walker is everything Rhett isn't. Easygoing, observant and far too quick to understand her in ways she doesn't expect. A farmhand who knows the ranch like it's second nature, Jace becomes the one person who makes Alder Creek feel almost survivable. Almost.
Between muddy four-wheelers, small-town gossip, and a high school where her name spreads faster than she can walk the halls, Savannah is forced into a life she never asked for-and a version of herself she doesn't recognize.
And the longer she stays, the more the lines blur between who annoys her, who understands her, and who might actually see her for something real beneath the image.
Because in a town like Alder Creek, secrets don't stay hidden, reputations don't stay clean and hearts don't stay where they're supposed to.
Especially when hate starts to feel a lot like something far more dangerous.
And falling in a place like this?
It's never accidental.