When it comes to family, Ruby Baxter hasn’t had much
luck. The important men in her early life abandoned her,
and any time a decent boyfriend came along, she ran away.
But now Ruby is thirty-one and convinced she is failing
her teenage daughter. Mia is the one good thing in her
life, and Ruby hopes a move to Kansas will fix what’s
broken between them.
But the road to redemption takes a detour. Hank McArthur,
the biological father Ruby never knew existed, would like
her to claim her inheritance: a dusty oil ranch just
outside of Unforgiven, Oklahoma.
As far as first impressions go, the gruff, emotionally
distant rancher isn’t what Ruby has hoped for in a
father. Yet Hank seems to have a gift for rehabilitating
abused horses—and for reaching Mia. And if Ruby wants to
entertain the possibility of a relationship with Joe
Dawson, the ranch foreman, she must find a way to open
her heart to the very first man who left her behind.