Spicy slow burn rodeo romance.
Eight seconds on a bull. A lifetime creating art. Max Hobbs can't have both… until she shows him that staying might be the bravest ride of all.
Max Hobbs thought he'd ride forever. Eight seconds at a time, chasing the next buckle, the next town, the next bull. Then a two-thousand-pound Brahma ended his season with broken ribs and a concussion that won't quit. Now he's back at his Alabama ranch, trying to remember why he ever wanted roots.
Elaine Strong knows talent when she sees it. The sculptures she found in that Bandera workshop weren't just art—they were raw power captured in bronze. She's offering Max everything: lucrative hotel commissions, casino contracts, a future that doesn't end with him eating dirt. But the commission requires him staying put. No circuit. No bulls. No freedom.
What should be a simple business deal becomes something neither of them planned for. Because Max learned to sculpt when an earlier injury nearly killed him, and going back to the bulls means proving that terrible night in the stadium didn't break him. But Elaine's offering more than money—she's a woman who makes him want things he's spent fifteen years running from.
As the season calls him back and the sculptures pile up in his workshop, Max faces the hardest ride of his life: choosing between the eight-second rush that might kill him and the woman who makes him want to survive. And his mysterious new ranch hands seem to share the opinion that he should choose Elaine.
In the space between bronze and bulls, can one restless cowboy discover that freedom isn't found in the arena—it's built in the choice to stay?
Steamy, emotional, and profoundly hopeful, American Cupid series delivers heart-pounding passion and small-town miracles. Love stories where redemption is as intoxicating as desire.
