Chase Givens never again expected to see the girl, Minnie, who mysteriously appeared at the ranch he shared with his brothers, Barclay and Jared, gave birth to triplets and disappeared three years ago. Roots to the special bond that had developed between Chase and Minnie during her stay at High Mountain remain. Now, single and lonely, he sows his wild oats holding a horse race through the center of town. Nothing new, but this time a young woman is nearly run down. Mortified, he leaps to help her, not realizing until she shows up at the ranch later Minnie has returned at last.

Jessamine (Minnie) Styles spent the years following the birth of her babies in Paris at a finished school, thanks to her parents who felt she needed polishing. At eighteen, she’s a beautiful, sophisticated, well educated young woman planning to open her own school in the house she grew up in not far from High Mountain ranch. The bitter, defiant child is gone. Everything has changed, including her feelings toward her children. When she goes to the ranch and asks to see them, old emotions between her and Chase re-emerge. Neither of them knows that both their lives are about to change forever.