A sassy redhead with an axe to grind… After catching her spouse kissing another woman in the barn, Loretta Sullivan Bailey left Lonesome Canyon Ranch and swore she’d hardly ever come back. But when her daughter threatens to drop out of university to become rancher’s wife, Loretta won’t let her baby make the same mistake she did. She returns to the ranch, driven to get her little girl back in college by the summer’s end…and resolute on disregarding her feelings for her ex-husband. A bullheaded but oh therefore sexy cowboy… A cowboy from his hat to his boots, ruggedly good-looking rancher Jackson Bailey is usually none too pleased that his feisty-and gorgeous-ex-wife provides suddenly shown up seventeen years after their divorce. But despite almost all their fighting and fussing, the two stubborn former enthusiasts soon find that previous flames burn the hottest. Can they finally put aside their differences and find happiness together…forever?