Wade Dwyer's life is turned upside down when his father dies and he learns he must marry or he and his siblings will lose the ranch. One last jab of the knife from his father. On top of that, his father's only friend knows about the stipulation and is determined to own the property by any means necessary.<br><br>He's facing the very real possibility of being the reason his family loses their home when his brother's best friend, Lance Matthews, offers to walk down the aisle with him. A faux marriage to the man he's loved for years is a torture he isn't sure he can endure.<br><br>Can he keep the ranch ... and the man of his dreams, too?

The Twisted Oak

“Your father was an…interesting man,” Ash said, clearing his throat and pulling at his tie.


Wade held back the snort, but just barely.


“He…placed some conditionson things.”


“What kind of conditions?” Casey demanded, sliding his folder onto the coffee table. “What the hell is going on?”


Ash’s face paled and he glanced at Wade, guilt etched across his face.


Fuck.His dad always said he would have the last say about him. Wade’s heart fell to his stomach and he wrestled the nausea flooding him. This wasn’t going to be pretty. Not at all.


“The land, and everything on it, has been left to the Dwyer children.”


The oxygen had been sucked out of the room. Nobody moved. Nobody took a breath.


Lance jumped up and took over, his eyes on Casey. “When your father set up his will, he included a child nobody knew he had. A daughter.” He moved to stand next to the woman he’d brought, placing his hand on her shoulder.


Chapter 9