A Family for Tucker

Widowed farmer, Molly Vandyke, is holding her world together with duct tape and not much else. Four years after losing her husband in a devastating fire, she’s raising two kids alone on a failing Montana farm. The last thing she needs is another man with big plans and no follow-through.

Tucker Lawton is a paramedic who can stabilize a cardiac arrest in a moving vehicle but can’t sit still long enough to figure out his own life. He’s got his father’s restless wiring—and a growing fear that he’ll leave when there’s nothing left to fix—same as his father did. 

When Tucker shows up at Molly’s farm to fix a broken gutter, he tells himself it’s a twenty-minute job. No strings attached. But day by day, Tucker rebuilds Molly’s farm, and somewhere between greenhouse panels and the beehive, he stops wanting to leave. Can this home, this family, become the rest of his life? Does he have what it takes to stay?

Molly has buried her heart for a reason. The last time she loved someone and lost him, the grief nearly destroyed her—and nearly killed her son. She cannot afford to want Tucker. Not his steady hands and quiet competence. Not the way he makes her feel alive again. Not the way her children look at him like he’s already family.

When a job offer pulls Tucker back toward sirens and crises--the only place he’s ever felt whole—both of them will have to decide: is the risk of staying worth more than the safety of never trying?

A clean, deeply emotional cowboy romance with a paramedic hero who fixes everything, a fierce widow-mom heroine, instant family, slow burn, and a Montana story of love and healing that will steal your heart.

Cynthia Dees is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 100 romances. Join her in Apple Pie Creek, Montana where clean and wholesome romance is alive and well. There will be love, laughter, and shenanigans aplenty in this sweet and whimsical series about six single siblings coming back home to save the family ranch, heal old wounds, and just maybe find true love.

"A delightfully light and refreshing read....Ms. Dees never lets me down...What fun. Five stars! Highly recommend..."