One long-ago sultry summer had forever changed Jett Kendrick's life. One minute he was a carefree cowboy loving sweet Kathy Patterson. The next, he was a man fighting for his son, whose young mother had abandoned him...But had she?

Sixteen years later, the memories from Burnt River still haunted Kathleen Patterson. But some things never changed...like Jett. He was still so ruggedly irresistible - still the man who'd broken her heart. But she was drawn to him like never before, determined to settle the past once and for all. And then she met Jett's son...