Rainey Adams steals a kiss from a handsome Texas Ranger and then steals his horse. On the run from her father, Rainey fled Washington, D.C., and headed to Texas, a state where she plans to stay lost from her father's scheme to marry her off to a man twice her age. Rainey is young and is prepared to make her living from teaching or nursing in the wild frontier. Unfortunately, those jobs are scarce. But fate has another plan for Rainey.

After chasing outlaws for two years as a Texas Ranger, Travis McMurray returns home wishing to be surrounded by his loving family. His Irish father and Apache mother died after his sister's birth. Their parent's death left three brothers, the oldest 11, to care for their sister and each other. Their struggle to stay together and keep the ranch left them with nightmares as they worked hard to survive. Expecting to rest and enjoy his family, Travis is not expecting to find a lovely fairy that bestows a kiss upon him and then steals his horse. Chasing after her, Travis runs into an ambush, where he is shot. His fairy returns to help him to safety and then disappears.

Rainey exchanges letters with Travis, leaving him no clues to her location. The taciturn Ranger opens his heart in his letters and Rainey dreams about the man she can never have. Marriage is not for her after seeing how her father killed her mother's spirit. Rainey refuses to lose her independence. Travis has a challenge to change her mind and marry him.

The first in the new Whispering Mountain trilogy, TEXAS RAIN entertains with its fast-paced action and endearing characters. Ms. Thomas captures the characters' emotional turmoil and their spirits as they battle the odds in the harsh Texas landscape.