There's something about cowboys, strong women, falling in love, and happy endings . . . Divorced, broke, and alone, Kody Monroe merely exists in a dead-end midwestern town. When two lawyers tell her that she's inherited a ranch in Montana, Kody hesitantly agrees to take a chance and leave the only home she's ever known to start a new life out west. When Kody arrives at the ranch, she meets the unapproachable, much younger ranch foreman, Jake Shannon. Kody is drawn to him like a magnet, but red flags go up, followed by a sheet of armor around her much-broken heart. Jake, who has turned his own emotional hurts into a comfortable kind of loneliness, was expecting a woman from Indiana who didn't know how to run a ranch. But he finds blue eyes deep enough to drown in, and a smile warm enough to melt anyone's heart, including his, which throws a monkey wrench into the secure world he's been in. Kody has many unanswered questions as to who willed her the ranch. What, or who, is buried in a lo...