Mary Jo Spencer feels trapped. She lives in a house with no electricity or running water with her parents and a teen-aged brother who will forever be eight years old. They are surrounded by wilderness and her father is gone for weeks with their only vehicle. In order to help her family, she needs a paying job, but they are 30 miles from that possibility. She finds comfort in the forest and her mules until she meets Barrett Monroe, who is brazen enough to show up uninvited on their land in a vehicle marked "Monroe Lumber Company." It's bad enough that drug dealers have been using their land without permission, but now a timber man? This clean romance is plumb full of hillbilly lore, adventure, intrigue and humor.
