"You can't assign me to this man!" Forest Ranger Sherri Landers felt her heart sink when she learned the name of her new partner. M.S. Barrett - reputed to be the most difficult and demanding ranger at the Rocky Mountain station. And a man who didn't like working with women... The rough-talking, hard-bitten Barrett regularly reduced his female partners to tears. With a man like that, Sherri had no intention of lowering her own defenses. But on their expedition into the Colorado wilds, she began to see a different Barrett emerge - a man who had unhappy secrets in his past, too...