GySgt Jared Worrell wanted one thing—to live and die a Marine. He’s made a good start at the first and come close to the second more times than a man should. One call from his mother changes all his plans, and he’s headed back to Ten Sleep, Wyoming. The Reserves feed his need to be a Marine, but what does a man do the rest of the year in a town so small it doesn’t even have one stoplight? His mom has the perfect solution; Jared should use another talent and become the town chocolatier. He’s just recovering from that bomb when she drops another… Lucy Thomas fell in love with Ten Sleep when her parents fulfilled their dreams of owning their own ranch. Now Lucy is living her dream of photographing Wyoming from its landscape to its people, but she’s never really felt a part of the small town where everyone has known everyone else forever. Turning the doorknob to her friend’s house brings her face to face with a man whose arms she’d love to call home. He’s a Marine, cowboy, and chocolatier...how can a woman resist? Coming home never tasted so sweet.

Michal “Mike” Dunn is Wyoming born and bred and the most respected and sought after farrier in the Big Horn Basin. At forty-two, she has no intention of leaving Ten Sleep or marrying a second time. Nature has taught her that a family with a house full of children wasn’t in the cards for her. Her job, friends, horses, and the Bighorn Mountains are all she needs. That is, until a big Marine with bigger dreams comes to Wyoming for a visit and has her wishing on lucky horseshoes that he’ll be always faithful. First Sergeant Nick “Mule” Walsh was passed around from foster home to foster home until he found a family in the United States Marine Corps. Watching his brothers settle down brings back the suppressed longing for a family of his own. When visiting his fellow Marine Reservist in Ten Sleep, Wyoming, Nick he meets Michal and aims straight for the heart. But the farrier has an iron will. She’s given him the summer, and he plans on using every ounce of stubborn Marine determination he’s got to show her their age difference doesn’t matter, and just the two of them together is all the family he needs. With enough heat, even iron bends…