When Dani Blazer set aside her career as a rodeo barrel racer for teaching in a California mountain town she thought it was for love and a family. All she has now is an empty home, a broken heart and a young mustang that needs a slow, gentle hand.

Hope Fielding watches the intriguing, attractive newcomer with a nameless panic. She's been the mother to her siblings most of her life, and the choices she's made to please her family and church weren't easy. She never dreamed she'd have to make them again.

As the long mountain winter sets in, passions catch fire and two women desperately resist the choices of the heart.