Everett 'Cowboy' Rembrandt has two great loves in his life, two things he can't live without. He's known nothing else in his life besides the rodeo and the girl. Everleigh Roberts had a monstrous start to life but when her brother and her Cowboy save her life as a young child she grows up to know love, trust, and kindness. But her Cowboy leaves her often, and now she needs him to stay. She gives him an ultimatum but he leaves anyway, and when he returns he discovers that Everleigh has secrets he never could have imagined.