Valissa Prescott's half-brother has gambled away her Galveston estate, Heartsong and it's been bought by Nathan Stone a hardnosed cowboy and businessman who owns several businesses in Galveston. Though she thinks she has three weeks to vacate the estate, he arrives early to claim his property. Without money or close relatives, Valissa has no choice but to remain at the house until she can find somewhere else to go. When she realizes she is beginning to fall for this giant of a man who thinks he can bully everyone into doing his will, she tries everything she can think of to get away from him....

Nineteen-year-old Opal Barnett never dreamed that leaving her home in Memphis, Tennessee to settle on a ranch that her father had inherited near the little town of Wildweed, Arizona would bring such an unsettling change in life. Not only did she find a half-breed cousin, but she found she had to give up dreams of wearing beautiful gowns and dress in britches, ride a horse, round up cattle, and do many jobs required of a rancher. She never dreamed that the hired hand who was such a help to would become the object of her secret dreams. She knew she had to fight the impulse she had to touch him...