Jackson Walker is anxious about spending a whole week in Red Creek, Kansas with his newly-found brothers. Will they be able to work as a team at the company they inherited from their dad? Can they even be in the same room together without getting into a dust-up?
What he has no concerns about, however, is the woman he’s fallen crazy in love with, sexy, quirky computer engineer Rori Hughes. But that changes her family comes to town with an offer she can’t refuse. Jackson is more confused than he’s ever been in his life, including the day when he’d been just fifteen and learned his father had a wife—and she was not Jackson’s mother.
Rori has major decisions to make, and she can feel Jackson backing away from her as he travels to more rodeos, visits his mother in Oregon, and has mysterious meetings in Kansas City that are causing the two of them to quarrel. His nightmares about turning out to be a man like his father concern her, but even more unnerving is the strange woman in town who has been talking with Jackson, and going out of her way to avoid Rori.
As summer turns into fall, and the holidays quickly approach, will Jackson and Rori find a way around their suspicions and insecurities or will there be separate and heartbroken Christmases for each of them?