When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five–year–old boy, he trades his big–city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close–knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. Taking care of little Matt and fixing up his run–down ranch house loosens something tightly wound inside him.
But when Steven takes on the pro bono defence of a local teen, he meets his match in the opposing counsel beautiful, by–the–book county prosecutor, Melissa O'Ballivan.
It'll take one grieving little boy, a sweet adopted dog and a woman who never expected to win any man's heart to make Steven know he has truly found home.