The run-down Texas farm Jubilee Hamilton has inherited is a far cry from the second chance she hoped for, but it and the abrasive foreman she's forced to hire are all she's got. Lone Heart ranch and the contrary woman who owns it are merely a means to an end for Charley Collins. But Jubilee tempts him to take another risk-- to stop resisting the attraction drawing them together despite all his hard-learned logic. When their young friend Thatcher Jones finds himself mixed up in a murder investigation, Jubilee and Charley may be his only protection-- if they can find a way to trust each other.