Katie Walsh expects to write a love story someday. The hero resembles her father, and the heroine the deceased mother she never knew but imagines from the longing on her father's face. Katie doesn't expect her father to be murdered, or his will to leave their farm to Guy Knowles, the man she hoped to marry, and order her to another state. Betrayed by the men she trusted, what should have become a love like no other withers and dies. Until Ted Howard, who doesn't fit the hole Guy left in her heart. Instead, he fits himself into what she needs-someone who will stay, protect her, and break his own heart for her if needed.