Jay recently inherited his family's ranch near the Grand Tetons. While he was in the army, his father kept the homestead running, until illness stole his life. Jay's determined to restore the ranch, but first he's got to settle a vicious battle with his stepmother and half-brother over a collection of paintings by Armstrong "Custer" Harris.

When Jay and Sara finally meet, it's love at first sight—a mutually inconvenient attraction that's soon complicated by a double murder. Working together to unmask a killer, Sara and Jay are powerless to resist each other, even though they both know it can never last.

Then the killer targets Sara. And suddenly Jay finds something he's once again willing to die for . . .