Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind. When Gideon Westcott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America's wool industry, he never expected to become a father overnight. And five year old Isabella hasn't uttered a word since she lost her mother. The unconventionality of the new governess concerns Gideon and intrigues him at the same time. But he can't afford distractions. He has a ranch to run, a shearing to oversee, and a suspicious fence cutting to investigate.
