"I ride alone" cowboy Lucas Taylor warns New Yorker Nicolette Kendall. But when she and son Sammy settle into Holiday Ranch, things are about to change for the sexy straight-shooting loner. After a frightening kidnapping attempt, Lucas becomes six-year-old Sammy's beloved bodyguard...while trying — in vain — to resist white-hot sparks between him and the boy's gorgeous city slicker mum.

Nicolette can't deny the attraction either. But she's been heartbroken once too often and won't hitch her star to a cowboy interested only in a fling. Until there's a real danger to her own life...and heart! Then will she trade her high heels for cowboy boots?