Lance McCoy has always hated ranching. He’s been running from it for ten years. A son of an alcoholic father, he left home at sixteen to make a better life for himself. He has grown calloused over the years. Life has not always been kind to him. He refuses to allow himself to become intimate with any woman. Now his father is dead, and his mother is about to lose everything she owns. She begs him to come back and help her save her home.