In 1850, Martha Harding chased her husband's killers to Texas. With the plan of revenge, she takes on the name of Mattie O'Sheay. She finds herself close but not close enough. Landing in the small town of Linden proved to harbor more than the killers, but also a tall handsome ranger, James Parker.
The beautiful woman he kept his eyes on rented a room at his mother's boarding house. James Parker kept Mattie O'Sheay's identity secret to help draw out the killers of her husband. Little did he know, the killers were not the only ones to tear her world apart. Is he man enough to put it back together again?