Life and love have dealt Natalie Haskell one devastating blow after another when soldier Beau Tyler, who stole her heart before leaving for a tour of duty from which he never expected to return, comes back to town just as Natalie is grieving her husband's death. Desperate to ignore the whispers of Beau's alleged role in her late husband's death, Natalie cannot deny that her heart still burns for the cowboy who got away.

"En years after her parents were killed, Evelyn Radcliffe is once more homeless. The orphanage that was her refuge and later her workplace has burned to the ground, and only she and a young orphan girl have escaped. Convinced this must be related to her parents' murders, Evelyn flees with the girl to Mesquite Springs in the Texas Hill Country and finds refuge in the home of Wyatt Clark, a talented horse rancher whose plans don't include a family of...