After the death of her father, Jo is determined to keep her family ranch. With a devious lawyer keeping her rightful inheritance from her while trying to foreclose on the ranch so he can build a luxury resort and most townsfold not believing a girl should run a ranch without a man around, Jo has to find a way to pay her bills and keep whats hers.

Help comes in the form of a small terrier left to die one stormy night in her cow fields. Little does Jo know that Buddy is not what he seems, with a bark that can shake the earth and the ability to bring tall dark strangers to her front porch, Buddy might be just what Jo needs to save her ranch.