A gruff rancher resists his growing attraction to a twice-divorced, independently wealthy beauty with an undeserved bad reputation, who is determined to avoid men and live a solitary existence.

In 1870, Dianne Chadwick must manage her ranch on her own after her fiance, Cole Selby, is captured by Takes-Many-Horses and her uncle is attacked by a grizzly bear.

When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.

Invited to stay at the Carson ranch while she researches how wild horses interact with ranch animals and ranchers, Luce Hale finds herself at odds with Drake Carson, who is wary and unwelcoming, but comes to her aid when he believes she is in danger.

"Cowboy Sawyer Garrett has no intention of settling down. But when he becomes a single dad to tiny baby June, stepping up to the responsibility is nonnegotiable. And so is finding a woman to be a mother to his infant daughter. So he decides to do it the way the pioneers did: by putting out an ad for a mail-order bride. Evelyn Moore can't believe she's agreed to uproot her city life to marry a stranger in Oregon. But having escaped one near-disastrous...