A man who's been hurt by love too many times. The best friend he refused to marry in his youth. She's divorced and looking for a home. Not a home with him!

Ex-marine, Richard Chavez, is the kind of man who can handle anything. The confusion of war, growing a family dynasty, siblings who can't get along, but don't ask him to a party and surprise him with the woman who broke his heart. The beautiful, River Woods, hasn't been back to Hidden Falls since she was a child and visiting her grandparents on their ranch. But since the divorce, she's been looking for someplace to put down roots that feels like home. Running into Richard Chavez was like a cold bucket of memory lane water hitting her in the face. The man looked good. But so what? She wasn't here to relive a past long forgotten and she wasn't here to watch women fawn all over some so-called war hero and billionaire! Plus, she doesn't want to hear all about the previous Hardman women who dated him. No thanks.