After Dr. Nicole "Nikki" Phillips gets dumped by her fiancé, Dr. Winston Thorpe, she seeks revenge and her life spirals out of control. She heads home to mend her broken heart. Along the way she runs into a fence owned by the RFK Ranch. She meets cowboy Ross Kincaid, a man with a body and hot temper that matches her own. The two get along like oil and water. When she is forced to do community service at a clinic his family owns, Nikki tries to fight her attraction to the handsome cowboy, but she finds herself fighting a losing battle against his tough, Western charms.