Julia Hillard is finally in control of her life--and her great-grandmother's boarding house. Her father doesn't believe she can do both. Over protective, he doesn't know when to back off. But Preacher's Bend has been known to change the stubborn minds of those who live here. She's doing the best she can with what life has given her. It's not her fault she's what others would call...sick.A skilled surgeon, who turned into a skilled bull rider, Saber Patterson is in town only for the rodeo. He's not here to break hearts...or break his fool neck on the back of a bull. Yet Julia is everything he'd ever wanted in a woman; smart, funny, her fiery red hair is the pull he can't deny. She's a good person. She doesn't deserve what he knows will happen when he leaves.Some bulls are mean, but love can be so much harder on a man, teach him a viable lesson he'll never forget, especially when it hits him from all sides and when so unexpected. Can he get her to understand he didn't come here to complicate things?