Book excerpt: She has no choice but to put it all on the line... Olivia Raines is trying to make her ranch a commercial success, but the odds—and the town mayor—are against her. Her elderly neighbor is in poor health, so she turns to his grandson for help, determined to use everything at her disposal, risking even her heart, to get the security she needs. With his grandfather's medical bills piling up, Creek Bend's mayor demanding their water rights and Big Oil offering cash on the barrelhead, Cody O'Neal admits that the sale of the Double O seems inevitable. He has to decide which is worth more—riches, after generations of struggling for prosperity, or love, the only thing the O'Neals have ever gotten right.