When Cat Crandall ditches her career in marketing to take a work teaching painting workshops in exotic locations, she’s hoping to end up being delivered to Tuscany or possibly France. Instead, she’s assigned to lead several aspiring performers through the backcountry from the isolated Boyd Dude Ranch in Wyoming.

Mack Boyd is in the middle of the best bronc-riding season of his existence when his mother asks him to help lead an performers’ retreat at the ranch. Mack might be able to ride a wild stallion to a standstill, but he can’t state no to his family members.

It doesn’t take long for Mack to figure out that artists are a lot harder to herd than cattle-especially when they’re led with a spitfire of the city lady who doesn’t prefer to be bossed around. Kitty Crandall is only trouble-so how come he so attracted to her?