Four brothers. Ninety days. One stubborn mediator who wasn’t supposed to fall for any of them.

When Hank Mason dies, he leaves behind a Colorado cattle ranch, a complicated will, and four sons who can’t agree on what to do with either. The terms are simple: reach a unanimous decision within ninety days, or the ranch goes to auction. The brothers haven’t been unanimous about anything since their father was alive.

Enter Bree Calder.

A Washington, D.C. mediator with a flawless track record and a talent for keeping her distance, Bree arrives in Golden Ridge expecting a difficult case. What she gets is Luke Mason – the oldest brother, the one who runs the ranch, the one who doesn’t want her help and doesn’t trust her process and looks at her across the dining room table like she’s the most irritating person he’s ever met.

The feeling is mutual. Mostly.

As Bree works to untangle the brothers’ grief, resentment, and competing visions for the ranch’s future, she discovers that Golden Ridge isn’t just a case file. It’s a community that claims its own, a valley that holds its secrets, and a family whose love runs as deep as their stubbornness. And Luke Mason – guarded, honest, infuriatingly competent – isn’t just a client. He’s the man who brings her coffee without being asked, who tells his youngest brother it’s okay to be scared, who sits on his porch in the dark and talks about his father in a voice that makes her forget every professional boundary she’s ever drawn.

But falling for a client doesn’t just break the rules. It could destroy the mediation, cost the brothers their ranch, and end the career Bree spent a decade building.

Some things are worth the risk. Some people are worth the fall.

The Brothers of Golden Ridge is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance about family loyalty, professional integrity, and the terrifying, beautiful act of choosing to stay. It features a brooding rancher who checks fences at dawn, a brilliant mediator who keeps her armor on until she can’t, four brothers who fight like they love – relentlessly – and a small town that watches everything.

Book 2 in the Golden Ridge Ranch series. Can be read as a standalone. HEA guaranteed. No cliffhanger.

Content note: This is a closed-door/fade-to-warm romance with emotional intensity, family conflict, grief themes, and one first kiss that took seventeen chapters to earn.