Reid Callahan misses his best friend and blames himself for not doing more to save him from the bull that killed him. He also carries the guilt of being in love with his best friend’s wife who blames him too—or did. Now she says she’s always been attracted to him. Is he just a replacement, a fill-in for her late husband?  

Lucy Albright has forged out a life for herself and the son her husband never met after widowed at a young age. When the man she’s always secretly lusted after returns to town for the holidays, she finds herself wishing to have the sexy handsome cowboy for her own. Can she give her heart to a man so like her husband, yet so different? Or worse, is she just his holiday fling?

When Reid decides he needs to do one last thing to honor his best friend, will Lucy understand or say goodbye to the cowboy she got for Christmas.