Ten years ago, Sterling Cross chose Yale and his family's billion-dollar legacy over Dani Taggart, the mechanic's daughter he promised to love forever. He left her in the dust of Midland without a backward glance. Now, the Cross empire is crumbling under the weight of sabotage, and Sterling is back to save it. But he has a logistics problem: he can't move a single barrel of crude without trucks.
And Dani owns every heavy hauler in the county.
She's not the heartbroken teenager he left behind anymore; she is the CEO of Taggart Transport, the Queen of the Permian Basin logistics. When Sterling walks into her garage wearing a suit worth more than her house, she doesn't offer him a contract. She offers him a reckoning.
Dani agrees to haul his oil, but her services come with a "Heartbreak Tax." The price? Sterling must work in her garage, on her schedule, and reintegrate into the blue-collar town he abandoned. As the Prince of Midland trades his Italian loafers for steel-toed boots, the old sparks reignite into an inferno. But when the shadowy corporation destroying Sterling's firm turns its sights on Dani, framing her fleet for a federal crime, Sterling must make the ultimate choice: his family's billions, or the woman who owns his heart.
