Lettie Brown has lived in the shadow of violence. After escaping her brutal past, she's finally at home in Forestville, Wyoming, where she would live a normal life--if she knew how. She's content working at The Blue Plate and printing the town newspaper, if not happy. Then a stranger stumbles into her world and turns everything upside down. Shane Murphy is a shell of a man, destroyed by the aftermath of the war, his personal tragedies and a penchant for cheap whiskey. When he lands, literally, on Lettie's feet, his future takes a hard right turn. As they fumble through a relationship that should not have been, a deep love takes root, one that cannot be denied. Together they discover a bond as unbreakable as steel and as undeniable as life itself until the past rears its ugly head and threatens the happiness they've found in each other.