Comeback Tour

When disgraced country music star Rhett Walker retreats to his tiny Texas hometown to escape a career-ending scandal, the last person he expects to find running his family’s struggling ranch is Harper Greene—his former best friend, the girl he left behind, and the one person who refuses to be charmed by his platinum records and pretty lies.

Harper Greene stayed in Copper Creek when Rhett left sixteen years ago. Stayed when her mother got cancer the summer they were supposed to run away to Nashville together. Stayed when her music dreams died. Now she’s managing the Walker Ranch—the same ranch Rhett abandoned for stadiums and fame—and she’s not impressed. When his publicist arranges three months of ranch work for a redemption documentary, Harper agrees because the ranch desperately needs the money. But if he wants forgiveness, he’ll earn it: mucking stalls at 5am, mending fences in Texas heat, and facing everything he ran from.

Rhett has problems too. One viral video destroyed his career overnight. The documentary is his only shot at redemption. Except Harper makes him actually work, and she looks at him like he’s nobody special. Just the boy who left. When he discovers she gave up everything while he chased fame, when he realizes his hit songs were all about her and she never knew, the guilt crushes him. He came home to save his career. He didn’t expect to fall in love all over again.

Then Harper learns the truth: her dying mother made them both promise to stay apart, orchestrating their separation to “protect” her. They didn’t abandon each other—they were lied to. As a wildfire threatens the ranch and forces them together, as documentary cameras capture real feelings instead of manufactured redemption, everything changes. But when a six-month stadium tour offers Rhett career salvation and eight million dollars, he has to choose: the comeback everyone expects, or the girl he never stopped loving.

Standing at the tour bus with the whole town watching, Rhett Walker makes the biggest decision of his life. He gets off the bus. Runs back to Main Street. Takes out his guitar and tells Harper the truth in front of everyone: He’s staying. For her. For home. For real this time.

In a small town where everyone’s watching and sixteen years of heartbreak stand between them and forever, a country music superstar and the girl he left behind discover that the best comebacks aren’t about stages—they’re about coming home. Sometimes choosing love over fame isn’t losing. It’s finally getting it right.

TROPES:
• Return to Hometown
• Second Chance Romance
• Enemies to Lovers
• Grumpy/Sunshine
• Small Town Romance
• Forced Proximity
• Celebrity Romance
• Songs About Her
• Grand Gesture
• Ranch Romance
• Country Music
• Dual POV

HEAT LEVEL: Sweet / Closed Door