After their first meeting, Edith "Edie" Carmichael would have been content to never lay eyes on Lucas Brown again.

She thinks he's no more than the grumpy owner of Pine Creek's lumber company, and he thinks she's a know-it-all lady doctor intent on putting folks in their place.

The two must quickly form a truce when suspicious accidents and theft at the sawmill threaten both his livelihood and the lives of his men, but can Lucas ever learn to trust a woman after a lifetime of being abandoned by them? Can Edie be content running the clinic in the hometown she thinks she's outgrown, or will her dreams prove more powerful than her growing feelings? And when the world around them goes up in flames, will Edie and Lucas make it out alive?