Kid Gloves - Annie Carlisle

Wade Mercer gave up his career to save the family ranch, and he runs it like control is a love language. The last thing he needs is the new neighbor - a whip-smart auditor with an underwater mortgage, a herd of opinionated goats, and a habit of being right - turning his operation, and his blood pressure, upside down.

Then the fire marshal says arson. And the whole county starts whispering her name.

Wade knows exactly one thing for certain: Delaney didn’t do it. Proving it means staking the ranch’s biggest contract - and his own carefully fenced heart - on the woman who has been dismantling both since the day she moved in.

A small-town romantic comedy with a grumpy hero who falls FIRST and hardest, a heroine who audits his entire life to rights, forty working dogs, one goat with a legal mind, and a county that bets on everything. Complete HEA, no cliffhanger, no cheating. First in a five-book series with an ending nineteen years in the making.