Marjorie Steel is still healing from the events of the past year, and
she's happy to put her plans to study culinary arts on hold to help her
best friend deal with a difficult pregnancy and two recently adopted
troubled boys. The fact that Bryce Simpson spends a lot of time at the
Steel Ranch is a benefit, and she's ready to see if her attraction to
him might be something more.
Bryce wants to do a hard day's work on the ranch. Once his muscles give
out and he collapses from exhaustion, maybe he'll stop torturing himself
over his late father's horrific double life. The Steels have a different
idea. They ask Bryce to take an executive position complete with a
profit share. As he has a young son and widowed mother to support, it's
an offer he can't refuse. The only catch is Marjorie. She's beautiful,
smart, feisty, and her kisses set him on fire. But he's an empty shell
with nothing to offer her, and she deserves the world.
As the sins of his father continue to haunt him, Bryce learns the
horrors of the past may not yet be buried.