Oof, this one is sad. It's also sweet and has great flirty banter as the couple who gets married for convenience 24 hours after meeting (his four year old has chronic kidney disease and needs better insurance to qualify for a transplant) get to know each other and eventually fall in love. It's set around Christmas on a ranch in the wilderness in Idaho (lots of horses, cattle, dogs, etc) and the kid is adorable a lot of the time (and when she's not, hello she's four and feels awful, it's expected and realistic). But the FMC had a bitter ex-husband to contend with, and her dad is in long term care with advanced dementia. It's a lot, and I cried for the last few chapters, but there is also hope (and a wee bit of God talk because the author is a Christian who I later learned went through her own atrocities including loss of her son and more recently her husband right after her previous book was released; but it isn't preachy, the MMC talks about how he prays for things mostly and they talk about believing in and being angry at God once). It's definitely fade to black as far as steam (making out with the clear intention for more is on page), but it fit the book so it didn't feel like anything was missing. Overall, I think I'm glad I read it, but even though I knew the little girl was chronically ill and really sick, I feel like I went into it unprepared to get rocked emotionally like I did.
CW (spoiler): the kid gets worse as the story goes on and is close to dying but a kidney comes in at the last moment. But the FMC's dad does have a stroke and die at the end.