Sunrise on the Ranch

A grumpy widowed rancher. A sunshine city girl with no ranch experience. One impulsive job application that changes everything.

Maisie Fletcher's life is falling apart. Fresh off a painful breakup and job loss in Seattle, she does something completely out of character—she applies for a live-in nanny position on a remote Montana cattle ranch. She has zero childcare experience, knows nothing about ranching, and is frankly terrified of chickens. But she needs a fresh start, and rancher Colt Brennan needs help desperately enough to take a chance on her.

What she doesn't expect is to fall in love with them both—the grieving widower and his silent six-year-old daughter.

Colt Brennan is drowning. Six months after losing his wife to cancer, he's struggling to keep his family ranch afloat while caring for his daughter Emma, who hasn't spoken a word since her mother died. When Maisie arrives in her impractical yellow car, completely unprepared for ranch life, he's convinced she'll quit like all the others.

But Maisie Fletcher doesn't quit.

Through burned breakfasts, escaped chickens, and Emma's careful silence, Maisie begins to find her place. She learns to ride horses, helps with ranch chores, and slowly draws Emma out of her shell with patience and genuine love. But as the ranch faces financial disaster and Maisie's feelings for Colt deepen into something neither of them expected, she must decide: is she ready to fight for this broken family and the land that's stolen her heart?

Because Colt is terrified to love again—and loving him means embracing a past she can never replace.

When Emma finally speaks, when small-town gossip threatens their fragile connection, and when an ex-boyfriend shows up to drag Maisie back to her old life, she'll have to prove that she's not just the nanny. She's home. She's family. She's exactly where she belongs.

Sunrise on the Ranch is a heartwarming contemporary Western romance about second chances, blended families, and finding love in the most unexpected places. Perfect for fans of emotional small-town stories, grumpy/sunshine romance, and cowboys who need healing just as much as the women who love them.

If you love emotional romances with depth, family dynamics, and happy endings that make you cry (the good kind), one-click now and escape to Montana's big sky country.