Returning home to Colorado after five seemingly endless years in a succession of eastern boarding schools, young Jessica Holleran quickly shed her thin veneer of ladylike behavior, and found herself immediately at odds with her guardian, tall, handsome rancher Dirk Hamilton. But as time passed, Jessie's feelings for Dirk changed from rage and resentment at his bullying ways to reluctant admiration, and finally to a passion she could not deny. Jessie vowed she'd win his heart, and share with him an eternity of Golden Tomorrows.