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Four years ago, Colt Hale left The Black Farm in Texas with a love he knew he had no right to hold onto. He was twenty-four. Y/N Black was seventeen. She was the farmer’s daughter—the stubborn, beautiful girl with a guitar in her hands and a heart that had already chosen him. Their summer together became something neither of them ever truly forgot. Then Colt left, and Y/N turned eighteen without him. Four years passed. Y/N is twenty-one now. Colt is twenty-eight. And somehow, after all that time, he comes home. But Colt doesn’t return to the girl he remembers. He returns to a woman carrying a grief so deep she can barely speak about it. Y/N’s father, a beloved Army soldier and the heart of The Black Farm, has died. The entire town mourns him. Y/N does too. She rides bulls like hell because eight seconds is sometimes the only time she can forget. She rides for her daddy. She rides for her momma. She rides for Ghost. She rides because if she stops moving, she might finally have to feel everything she has been trying to outrun. She still loves her friends. She still loves Colt. She never stopped. But right now, love isn’t what she needs. She needs her daddy back. And Colt has returned just in time to watch the woman he never stopped loving try to survive losing the man she could never replace. Maybe, someday, they’ll find their way back to each other. But first, Y/N has to learn how to live with the goodbye she never got to say.