To escape an arranged marriage to benefit her fathers business Heidi Schultz runs to the ranch owned by her sister Lily and brother-in-law Toby. No one will ever run or ruin her life again. Shell find a job in nearby San Antonio and fulfill her dream of living on her own. Shell never surrender her independence to anyone especially not to a man. But when her father finds her Heidi agrees to Tobys idea to postpone her plans for a new life and stay at the ranch a while longer just to be safe. Jethro Bannister likes his life as foreman for Toby Grimes. Memories of the way his Georgia family turned on him dont plague him while living on a secluded Texas ranch. With Gods help hes made peace with his painful past. Until Heidi interrupts his carefully arranged placid world of quiet. The too talkative woman could worry the horns off an entire herd of longhorns. Plus her family problems remind him too much of what he left behind. Watching Lily and Toby love and depend on each other chisels away at the wall of independence Heidi has built to protect herself from being betrayed again. Despite their misgivings Heidi and Jethro form a tenuous friendship based on their common wish to be left alone. They understand each other better than anyone else around them does. Confiding in one another deepens their friendship more than either intends. Will Heidi and Jethros past wounds bond them together in an unexpected love or push them apart?
