Corbin MacKay has entered into an online relationship with a woman who lives in the Texas Hill Country After they make plans to get together in the near future and meet "face to face," she suddenly goes "dark." Panicked, the trail-riding fireman and former rodeo cowboy, flies to San Antonio to find out what happened to the mysterious blonde who made him willing to take a chance again. As he tries to find her, he learns the woman is not who he thought she was.
Cicely Shoemaker's always been just on this side of the law. However, not all members of her family have been. And, for that, she's paying the price. A rival of her father's makes outrageous demands to which she balks. No way will she marry that man's odious son.
With only one chance to get hold of the man she's fallen in love with, she sets in motion a chain of events that will send her and Corbin into the heart of evil.