Leila Valentino is desperate to save her family's winery in Colorado. Her grandparents trusted her to take over the business side of things, but no matter what she has tried she is running out of ideas. As a last ditch effort, she makes a deal that she has to keep secret from her family. 

August Harding left his family's ranch and has made a name for himself in the company he has established himself with. All that is standing between him and a promotion is the Valentino Bellas Vineyards. He has been tasked with taking control of it for his boss.

What starts as pretend to keep August's real reason for being back in town a secret from Leila's grandparents quickly blurs lines and brings up memories and feelings from the past. 

Leila and August's past was over with many questions left unanswered and feelings hidden and ignored. When they started playing pretend, it didn't take much to convince her grandparents they were real based on what they used to be. 

This was a quick easy read which was exactly what I was hoping for. I hadn't read any of the previous Silverado Lake books and didn't feel like I was lost at all. In fact, I fell into this world like I had been there before and the characters and story completely stood alone. I would like to go back and read the others in the series because my one real disappointment was there wasn't a whole lot of "cowboying" in the story. As Leila and August are both working on and for wineries, August's family ranch is more of a secondary (or tertiary) setting and doesn't play a large roll in the story. He has avoided going home because of overwhelming grief after the loss of his father, and as such has distanced himself from the way he grew up. But even without the strong cowboy feel, the heart of this story is a western and I am interested to read the previous stories in the series and catch August's siblings' stories.