Joshua Carter was the love of Katy Lynn Logan's heart and her soulmate. Or so she thought until the day she buried her father; the same day Joshua broke her heart. Seven years later Joshua returns to find his preacher father had been right: Katy had turned out like her immoral lmother and drunken father. She now runs the Soiled Dove Saloon on the banks of the Red River. But Joshua's attraction to Katy did not die when his father sent him away, and Katy had not buried her attraction to Joshua when she buried herself in hard work.