Santa wore a G-string.
Taj Bailey is the divorced father of 2 adorable little girls, Ellery age 6, and Stella age 4. Stella is usually accompanied by her horse, Rosie. Others may see Rosie as only a stick horse but, to Stella, she's flesh and blood.
Taj is a former bull rider. After a broken back and various other injuries, he hung up his spurs. He now works construction. His ex, Marley, is the bane of his existence.
Taj fell head over heels in love with Marley. Too bad he didn't realize she married him for the money she thought he had. After blowing thru his nest egg and cheating on him multiple times, she finally left him for a much richer man. She's now telling him she and her husband are moving from Kissing Springs to California and the girls will be going with them.
He's desperate to earn money for a lawyer to fight the girls from being moved. As a last resort, he takes a job as a stripping Santa at a bachelorette party. There he meets Summer.
Summer Lockland recently moved back to Rodey from Chicago. She spent several years trying to climb the corporate ladder, had a live-in boyfriend who treated her more like a maid and she missed her family. Now she's trying to find her place at the family distillery. But she's constantly butting heads with 2 of her older brothers, especially Knox.
She ends up leaving her cousin's bachelorette party with Santa.
Summer and Taj have an instant connection. But he's made a vow to never fall in love again. Summer soon realizes that Marley didn't just divorce him, she broke him.
They start a friends with benefits relationship. But soon Summer breaks the rules by falling in love with him. She has to distance herself from him, hard as that may be. Will Taj finally realize she's helped him heal and that he's no longer the broken man he once was?
I received an ARC of this book from the author via Booksprout. I am voluntarily leaving this review.