<P>Ten years after her parents were killed Evelyn Radcliffe is once more homeless. The orphanage that was her refuge and later her workplace has burned to the ground and only she and a young orphan girl have escaped. Convinced this must be related to her parents' murders Evelyn flees with the girl to Mesquite Springs in the Texas Hill Country and finds refuge in the home of Wyatt Clark a talented horse rancher whose plans don't include a family of his own. At first Evelyn is a distraction. But when it becomes clear that trouble has followed her to Mesquite Springs she becomes a full-blown disruption. Can Wyatt keep her safe from the man who wants her dead? And will his own plans become collateral damage?</P>