What could two troubled souls from
different walks of
life have in common? Maybe everything.
Andra Lawler lives
isolated at her family's horse ranch,
imprisoned by the memories of an assault in college. When
she needs help training her foals, she hires a
Haitian-Creole cowboy from New Orleans with a laugh as big
as the Montana sky.
LJ Delisle can't stand the idea that Andra
might be
lonely—or eating frozen TV dinners. He bakes his way into
her kitchen with a lemon velvet cake, and offers her cooking
lessons that set them on the road to romance. But even their
love can't escape the shadow of what they've been through.
Despite their growing friendship and his gentle rapport with
the horses, LJ is still an outsider facing small-town
suspicions.
Before they can work through their issues, LJ is
called home
by a family emergency. In the centuries-old, raggedly
rebuilt streets of New Orleans, he must confront memories of
Hurricane Katrina and familiar discrimination. And Andra
must decide if she's brave enough to leave the shelter of
the ranch for an uncertain future with LJ.