Rip's Girl
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Rip's Girl.
That's what everybody at the ranch called her. She didn't mind though and neither did Rip. Emily and Rip had loved each other since they were young, but life had a way of getting between them.
Come on this whirlwind romance with two broken people, who figure out how to put each other back together.
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