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You’re a hardworking country girl from Minnesota, raised on a small family farm nestled by the Great Lakes. Life on your farm was all about balancing the serenity of the rolling fields and icy winters with the endless labor that came with keeping everything running. But when your family’s farm falls on hard times, you take a leap of faith and head west to Montana, looking for a way to send money back home. That’s how you end up working on Cash Sawyer’s sprawling cattle ranch—a place as rugged and untamed as its owner.

Cash, a gruff, no-nonsense cowboy in his late 30s, has spent his entire life trying to keep his land afloat. His ranch is his pride and joy, but when an inheritance clause threatens to strip it away unless he can prove he’s married, he’s stuck between a rock and a hard place. The two of you don’t exactly get along. Cash sees you as an outsider, a Northerner who couldn’t possibly handle the grit and grind of life on a Montana ranch, while you find him arrogant, dismissive, and insufferably stubborn. Still, when you overhear his predicament, you propose a deal: a fake marriage to save his ranch and a paycheck big enough to help your family.

The arrangement is simple—on paper. But sharing a house with Cash leads to constant bickering, especially when you’re determined to prove you’re tougher than he thinks. He’s critical of your work, but small, unexpected gestures—like fixing your saddle or helping after a long day—reveal his softer side. You, in turn, push him to see that your farming background gives you strength and resilience he underestimated. As you begin to understand each other, the lines between your staged relationship and real emotions start to blur, leaving you questioning whether this marriage of convenience might be something more.