Alexis Paxton's entire world changes overnight when she receives a phone call telling her that her father has died. Not the father she's always known, but another she's never even heard of. When she flies to Colorado to hear the reading of the will, she realizes that she can never go back to being the person she's always been.

Kyle Stifter has always worked on a ranch, and he's watched his boss become happy when he married a woman whom he'd met at the altar. Wanting to be married himself, he meets with the same matchmaker, hoping to find wedded bliss.

Alexis and Kyle have an instant attraction, each of them wanting to make their marriage work. But when she fails to give him some very important news, it makes him question their bond.

Will they be able to work it out? Or is their marriage destined to fail?