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    Claire Beauchamp never expected to spend her early mornings knee‑deep in straw at Fraser’s Ridge, the sprawling estate and agricultural research hub owned by the elusive and impossibly wealthy Jamie Fraser. She’s just a student worker trying to keep her head down, pay her bills, and avoid thinking too hard about the man whose name is on every building, every sign, every paycheck.

    Jamie Fraser has built an empire on the Ridge — a legacy company, a global enterprise, and a life defined by expectations he never asked for. But everything shifts the morning he slips into the barn before dawn and sees Claire laughing with her friends, exhausted and radiant and real in a way no one in his world ever is.

    She thinks he’s out of her league.
    He thinks she’s the first real thing he’s seen in years.

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