Jessica Johnson thought her troubles were over when her abusive husband was brutally murdered but with Henry not even cold in his grave a handsome stranger rode into town. Reade Johnson had not seen his brother since they were children. Now Reade had found out that his brother was a lawyer in a little Texas town known as Sweet Prairie. Unfortunately he was a day too late; passing his brother's funeral procession as he rode into town.

Reade knew that the death wasn't accidental and his suspicion was on the new widow, his sister-in-law. He had barely met his lovely sister-in-law when the sheriff showed up to arrest her. Now they were on the run from the posse while trying to find the real murderer. Along the way they find themselves in the middle of a tornado, become witnesses to a real ghost town, visit a real indian reservation in Indian Territory, and fall in love on the dusty trail as they race to find the truth before it is too late for the love that has barely begun to live.