Missing her family and her horse, Skye McCullough has returned home to Canden Valley to live and work in the family pub, a perfect venue for flirting with the cowboys who wander in for a beer as they're passing through town. But she is very selective. She will only go out with the ones with whom she is certain to have no future. The moment Nick Callen happens into The Village Pub for directions to the river, he is smitten with the sassy bartender. So much so that he uproots his writer's life in San Francisco to move to Canden Valley and tend bar alongside her. But getting Skye to go out with him is a challenge for which the highly-successful journalist did not bargain.