Jessie Donaldson is a hard worker, loyal, and desperate to keep her family's farm afloat. The one thing she couldn't do. She stood alongside her horse, her seen better days truck and trailer, and her meager belongings watching everything she loved go to the highest bidder. Determined to not let this destroy her, she heads south, leaving the past behind her, in search of a new beginning.
Matt Newman, owner of The Double Star Ranch, is short-handed as he works to make his ranch one of the best in the state of Texas. Excited to interview a much exalted Jessie Donaldson, the last person he expected to walk through his door was a woman. But having been raised by his grandmother who ran the ranch with an iron fist up until her passing, he was willing to give the woman a chance.
Matt finds himself attracted to Jessie's feistiness, sheer determination to learn every aspect of ranching, and prove herself to the men. But soon things start to happen around the ranch. Accidents that could destroy Matt's dreams for the ranch and a future with Jessie. A future he hadn't even know he wanted until she walked through his door.