The One I Stood Beside (Plain Daisy Ranch #2)
Piper Rayne
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
4.19
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 26 ratings · 262 pages · Published: 02 Jul 2024

Jude would do anything for me. He’s stood by my side since we were six, and I’ve done the same for him.
When my father dies, leaving our family farm drowning in debt and on the brink of being auctioned, I’m not surprised Jude steps in to help. I just never dreamed he’d fall to bended knee and devise a plan for us to fool everyone into thinking there’s more than a lifelong friendship between us.
Soon, I’m moving into his house, we’re planning a wedding on his family’s ranch, and we discover a new side to our relationship. I keep reminding myself it’s not real—it’s only to secure a loan to save the farm.
I’ve secretly loved Jude all my life, and now that I know how good we are together, I’m not sure we can return to being just friends.
Tagged as:
- friends to lovers 5
- contemporary 5
- cowboy hero 4
- marriage of convenience 4
- found family 4
- dual pov 4
- western 4
- forced proximity 3
- alpha male 3
- grumpy/cold hero 3
- grumpy & sunshine 3
- m-f romance 3
- funny 2
- first person pov 2
- enemies to lovers 1
- good grovel 1
- take-charge heroine 1
- male pov 1
- height difference 1
- fake relationship 1
- pregnancy 1
- small town 1
- sweet/gentle heroine 1
- cheerful/happy heroine 1
- sweet/gentle hero 1
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- geography
- north america 2
- usa 2
- nebraska 2
- content warnings
- mental trauma 1
- death / grief 1
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The 'Plain Daisy Ranch' series
94 ratings 4.16 ·
contemporary · western · humor · friends to lovers · forced proximity · found-family · m-f · cowboys · from hate to love · explicit-open-door · length-medium · sports · grumpy sunshine · dual-pov · pregnancy · new adult
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