Her Copper Run Cowboy

One forgotten schoolhouse. One handsome cowboy. One love story waiting to be discovered. Kara Richmond has spent years building a life she loves in Copper Run. As assistant librarian, she’s worked hard to prove she’s ready to take over when her longtime mentor retires. But with the library’s future uncertain, Kara knows wanting the job may not be enough. Then, while hosting a historical display at the town’s annual Western Days celebration, she discovers an old photograph connecting one of Copper Run’s founding families-and the cowboy she’s secretly admired for years-to a forgotten one-room schoolhouse.Blake Weston has deep roots in Copper Run. His family’s sprawling cattle ranch has been passed down through generations, and Blake has always accepted that preserving the Weston legacy is part of who he is. Quiet, hardworking, and far gentler than his rugged appearance suggests, he’s also spent years finding excuses to stop by Kara’s Western Days booth. When she shows him a photograph of his late grandfather, Blake offers to take her across Copper Run Ranch to the abandoned schoolhouse still standing on Weston land.What begins as a search through dusty boxes and forgotten pieces of history soon becomes something neither can ignore. Between horseback rides across open country, evenings sorting old photographs, Sunday suppers with Blake’s lively family, and quiet moments beneath endless Western skies, Kara discovers there’s far more to the handsome rancher than the crush she’s carried for years. And Blake begins to wonder whether the future waiting for him at Copper Run Ranch might finally include the woman he’s never quite managed to forget.But Kara’s career-and her place in Copper Run-is far from certain. When an opportunity elsewhere forces her to choose what she truly wants, Blake refuses to ask her to sacrifice her dreams for him.Can Kara build the future she’s fought for without leaving Copper Run-and the cowboy who just might belong in it-behind?