When Cathryn Donohue-Ashe returns to her Texas hometown, she wants nothing to do with the ranch she inherited or the rugged foreman in charge. Rule Jackson may have been her first love, the man who brutally broke her heart, but he s also the reason she plans on hightailing back to the life she has made for herself in Chicago. But once she encounters Rule again, she can t deny the strong stir of desire she still feels. And there s no mistaking the glimmer of heat in his eyes.