The new veterinarian in Bitterroot. Montana. Sara Wingate was up to her ears in muck and squealing pigs when site noticed Mitch Carter watching her. Mitch was a professional cowboy, at home on the back of a stallion, a hero in the rodeo ring. Was it any wonder Mitch was laughing at her? In fact. Mitch envied Sara. Sara was fast gaining the respect of the community, was turning her new neighbors into friends, was building a future. Watching Sara. Mitch felt his heart stir with the unaccustomed need to belong to someplace—and to someone.

Are you a fan of old time westerns where the hero—or the villain—holds up a train at gunpoint? Grady Hughes loves those old movies, and when a train threatens, for the second time, to kill one of his valuable steers, he goes temporarily insane and lands himself in a world of trouble. He has to appear in court, undergo sentencing and deal with Fiona, the parole officer assigned to him. Fiona has never met anyone like Grady. He irritates her, but it's his kids who really get under her skin. What's she do with a modern day renegade and a trio of kids who capture her heart?