All is not well at Double J Ranch Colton Jones has screwed up one too many times. As the eldest son of Cutter and Raylee, Colton didn't want to become a cutting horse trainer like his father and has thrown himself into the rodeo arena instead. His party-hard ways and sneaky love affair with the neighbour's daughter, Avery O'Brien, has sparked outrage with her father, and after an all-out brawl, the two ranches are not speaking. In the third book of The Cutter Series, Cowboy Rising, friendships are broken and families are tested, but the horses never miss a beat. Colton Jones is a cowboy who is searching for his own path in life, but it may just be the tough love shown by his father, that helps raise him to the top.