A broken bull rider. A controlled sports therapist. One brutal chute wreck. One dangerous comeback. One secret buried behind the chutes.

Finn “Lucky” O’Connor, professional bull rider
He built his career on eight seconds, a reckless grin, and making everyone believe pain was part of the show. Then one bad ride tears up his knee, threatens his future, and leaves him facing the silence underneath the nickname. He wants back in the arena. Back with his team. Back in control of the only life he knows. But rehab means putting his body—and the truth he keeps joking around—in the hands of Sloane Park, the woman who once knew him before the crowd did.

Dr. Sloane Park, rodeo return-to-sport specialist
She doesn’t do chaos. She does protocols, benchmarks, clean boundaries, and hard calls riders don’t want to hear. Finn O’Connor is not just another injured athlete. He is the man she has a history with, the patient she should not want, and the one case dangerous enough to threaten everything she has built. She wants to get him safely back on his feet without risking her license, her control, or the heart she trained herself to protect. She can rebuild his knee. Surviving what he does to her composure is another matter.

Tropes you get
✅ Second chance romance ✅ Bull rider romance ✅ Sports injury recovery ✅ Physical therapist x injured athlete ✅ Forced proximity rehab ✅ Forbidden professional boundaries ✅ Wounded charmer hero ✅ Controlled healer heroine ✅ Found family / team brotherhood ✅ Arena danger and sports corruption ✅ Spicy cowboy romance ✅ Happily ever after

A violent chute wreck takes Finn out of competition and throws him into Sloane’s rehab room, where every touch is clinical, necessary, and far too loaded with everything they never finished.

But the injury is only the beginning.

When a powerful sports-management group starts pressuring Sloane for protected medical information, threatening Finn’s career, and circling Canyon Creek’s riders, the comeback turns into something far more dangerous than physical therapy.

Someone wants control of the circuit. Someone is willing to break riders to get it. And Finn’s wreck may not have been bad luck at all.

If Finn pushes too hard, he could lose the ride forever. If Sloane crosses the wrong line, she could lose the career she sacrificed everything to earn. And if they keep pretending the past is buried, they may lose the only thing strong enough to carry them through what comes next.

Sharp banter. Old wounds. Medical-rehab intimacy. Arena suspense. A bull rider who hides fear behind charm. A heroine who learns that control is not the same as safety. A love story about coming back stronger, telling the truth, and holding on when letting go would hurt less.

Perfect for fans of emotional cowboy sports romance, second-chance bull rider love stories, forced-proximity rehab tension, found-family rodeo teams, and spicy romance with danger, grit, and a hard-earned HEA.

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