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The One I Stood Beside (Plain Daisy Ranch)

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Best friends-to-lovers • fake marriage / marriage of convenience • lifelong pining • save-the-family-farm stakes • ranch wedding • forced proximity

A sweet, swoony small-town romance where a lifelong friendship turns into the one thing they’ve both been avoiding: the truth. The One I Stood Beside delivers best-friends chemistry, fake-marriage tension, and that delicious “it’s not real… except it feels real” spiral as two people who’ve always chosen each other finally cross the line.

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They’ve been best friends since they were six. Jude would do anything for her—he’s stood by her side through everything, and she’s done the same for him. So when her father dies and leaves the family farm drowning in debt and on the brink of auction, it’s no surprise Jude steps in to help.

What she doesn’t expect is Jude dropping to one knee with a plan: a fake marriage to convince everyone there’s more than friendship and secure the loan that could save the farm. Suddenly she’s moving into his house, planning a wedding on his family’s ranch, and discovering a new side of Jude—and a new side of them—that’s impossible to unsee.

She keeps telling herself it’s only a business arrangement. But she’s secretly loved Jude her whole life, and now that she knows how good they are together, she’s not sure they’ll ever be able to go back to “just friends.”

Plain Daisy Ranch Series

The One I Left Behind (Book 1)
The One I Stood Beside (Book 2)
The One I Didn't See Coming (Book 3)
Chasing Forever: The Owens (Book 4)
Chasing Love: The Owens (Book 5)
Chasing Home: The Owens (Book 6)

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