After news of her fathers' death, Evelyn Lockwood returns to her small hometown Dew Springs, Texas to claim her inheritance, the Double E Ranch. Evie's plans of selling the Double E to resume her high society life in New Orleans and snag a rich husband is derailed when she discovers her fathers' strange bequeath to the rugged and boorish cowboy Cade Hamerton.

Cade Hamerton has had to shoulder his fathers' dishonest and violent reputation in Dew Springs his whole life. When Evie's father leaves him half of the Double E Ranch, he has a chance at redemption and to secure the closest semblance of a family he has ever had.

When Evie's railroad shares bankrupt, she must defend her only source of income and learn the true value of a man.

With Evie staying on at the Double E, Cade is forced to defend not only his entitlement, but his heart, from invasion.