Lacey Turner was five when her father contracted AIDs from a transfusion. That rough childhood made her strong and self-sufficient, so butting heads with the guy her brother leaves in charge of the ranch while he serves with Doctors Without Borders is as inevitable as her attraction to the hot cowboy.

Jesse Briscoe’s word is his bond. Too bad he’s agreed to watch over his buddy’s ranch and hellcat sister while he’s away. The hellcat is as spoiled and self-serving as she is beautiful. But he’d witnessed firsthand what a woman like that can do to a man when his mother decided she no longer wanted to be a wife and mother and left when he was nine.

Worn down by a desire too strong to ignore, the two give in to their heated attraction, but will they give up control long enough to discover the truth behind their attitudes?