She'd intended to stay in town only long enough to leave again. But then she met him.

Cassie Hastings is a city girl, staunchly opposed to change. Brannt McDowell is a small-town prosperous rancher, used to getting his own way.

When Cassie takes a veterinary externship in the small town of Pantula, Texas it promises to be a steep learning curve. Moving some odd thousand miles away to a population boasting more heads of cattle than people, with an apartment housed on top of an animal clinic, and forced proximity to moody, arrogant, devastating Brannt (who just happens to be her biggest client), Cassie should be counting down the das until she can return home.

Only. Things change sometimes. Plans change. She was never supposed to stay. A temporary position, she was never supposed to fall in love.

Now she'll have to choose between the place she'd always thought she'd be headed, and the home she suddenly doesn't want to leave.