As a successful Boston lawyer, Madison Randolph is more at home in the courtroom than in the dusty frontier town he's escaped. But when his brother is accused of murder, he heads to Texas to clear his family's name despite the dark secrets that still haunt him.

Fiery Fern Sproull is determined to get justice for her cousin's death, and she's not going to let anything stand in her way. Madison Randolph might have a cultured accent and a way with words, but she's not falling for anything he says. But as she prepares for the trial of a lifetime, she starts to realize she might be falling for the loyal lawyer after all…