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If there’s one thing I know to be certain in life, it’s to expect the unexpected. I never expected to become a teen mom or have to flee a toxic relationship years later. And I certainly never expected to go head-to-head with Jacob Harris, doctor of veterinary medicine, to prove I’m worthy of running the struggling rescue full of misfit animals I suddenly inherited.

Jacob is as smug as he is good looking, and I refuse to let that cocky grin or sharp jawline distract me. I won’t go down without a fight, and this time, it’ll be easy to stand my ground when my opponent is someone I can’t stand—even though my body reacts whenever he’s around. This time I’m not backing down no matter how much he gets under my skin.

But the more I push, the more he pulls…until I don’t know what I’m more at a risk of losing: the rescue or my heart.

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Jodie wanted to be a Veterinarian but she ended up getting pregnant at 17 and had a little girl named Everly. Now at 14, Josie finds out that things at school are terrible and no one is doing anything about it so Josie pulls Everly out of school and takes her to her aunt Kim’s in Silver Ridge at an animal rescue. While there Jodie meets the local Vet Jacob they end up on the wrong foot but that doesn’t stop her from trying to prove him wrong.
This was an enjoyable slow burn enemies to lovers romance which is usually a read that I enjoy but, I did feel as though something was missing from the story but I can’t put my finger on it.

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