How long is too long to wait for the one you love? Patrice is running from her ex-husband, the man that hurt her and threatened their son. All she wants to do is live quietly and ride horses, but when her father hires an American to be her bodyguard she realizes what she was always missing in her marriage…passion. Michael is struggling to learn how to live without the military, but when an old friend calls in a favor, he jumps at the chance to be needed again. Now he finds himself promising the beautiful woman that he will protect her son regardless of what her father says. He can’t see it in himself to tell her no. What happens when all the reasons to not be together are relieved? Will Patrice’s thoroughbreds keep Michael from finally claiming his woman?