Coming home was hard, but Emma Sinclair feared leaving again would be even harder. Returning had resurrected all the joy and pain of her girlhood when she'd loved -- and lost -- rancher Wyatt Barlow. Was their renewed acquaintance a second chance at happiness -- or just a heartbreaking game of capricious fate?

Sixteen years ago he'd driven her away for her own good. Now she was Dr. Emma Sinclair, who'd readily helped Wyatt's pregnant daughter and seemed determined to reunite their feuding families. But a future together was impossible, for there was still no way that a hardworking rancher could ever give Emma the life she deserved...!