When young widow Lily McCourt is attacked by a couple of neighboring ranch hands, Troy Hammond comes to her rescue, just as he has since the day her husband died. For Lily, it was love at first sight the moment the ranch foreman drifted onto the Triple M Ranch, and Troy feels the same, she's sure of it. She's also certain Troy's loyalty to her dead husband has kept him from acting on his feelings, and if she wants to break the reluctant cowboy's stubborn sense of honor, she'll have to shed more than her petticoats to brand him as her own.