Home Schooled

By Ivy Sexton

She's spent two years Not Noticing him. He's spent two years building her things instead of saying so.

Copper Gulch's teacher does not take up with a parent. Clem Dailey knows the code of conduct - she signs it every August - and the unwritten half is longer than the written half. So she has professionally, rigorously failed to notice Levi Ashby: the widowed father of her best student, the man who signs his daughter's reading log in full sentences, the man who built nine booths for a one-booth fundraiser and stood at the back of the gym taking no credit.

Levi made a vow over a crib eight years ago: nothing you can lose. Never again. He doesn't spend words. He builds things - booths, shelves, jump standards turned like they're going in a courthouse - and he's been quietly building a case for two years.

But his daughter figured them out long ago. The drawing's been on the refrigerator for months. And there's a handkerchief in Clem's coat pocket that neither of them is asking about.

Time for somebody to raise their hand.

Book Four of the Ashby Brothers of Rimrock Ranch - a slow-burn, high-heat single-dad romance where the whole county had money on it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HG8GXP61
• ISBN13: 9798194504657
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"