Mike Lanagan knows that in Lucy Brown's eyes he's just a drifter, a hired hand who can move hay, pen pigs and kiss a lady breathless.

Lucy knows that in Mike's eyes she's just a plain-Jane farmer, a woman too unworldly to be suspicious of a stranger.

A few days ago, Mike Lanagan was a big-city newspaperman who somehow got himself on a killer's bad side. And until he can figure out who wants him dead, he needs to lose himself in a cornfield. But deceiving the sweetest, prettiest farmer in Iowa means he will end up with a hole in his heart one way or another….