It seems like everyone is running from something or someone in their past and somehow they are all converging on the small town Lucinda. Lucinda is barely surviving since the mines have been all but deserted. The boarding house rarely has boarders. And the general store/bank is doing it's best to service those still hanging in there. But Lucinda is home. Rachel Hudson and her brother Nathan came looking for a home, looking for a new start and they seem to have found it there. But unknown to them their past is catching up to them. The ugliness they ran from has doggedly tracked them down. Now the question is will the town protect and support them or will they be forced to once again run for their very lives. Ranger Jack McCain has been hot on the trail of a band of murderous thieves who somehow turned the tables on him leaving him for dead in a blizzard. Battered and bruised not only by the outlaws but by the storm itself he manages to hang on to the reins of his horse and winds up on Rachel Hudson's porch. Is it luck or fate that has brought these two wounded people together? Neither one is willing to acknowledge their growing affection for the other. The secrets of their pasts hang over them like a dark brooding cloud. A storm is on the horizon and now the question is how Rachel and Jack weather the storm.

Garrett touches on an often used theme of small towns and small minds in TOUCH OF TEXAS where a self-determined ruling family influences the town's opinion of people especially new comers. All it takes is one turn of a phrase to make the difference between being respected or despised. This is a story of people trying to turn around their lives and gain respectability and perhaps even acquire that elusive goal of happiness. Even when faced with frightening events the choices Garrett's characters make stay true to their personalities and beliefs. Will good triumph over evil? Pretty tough to call when the evil doers seem to be without any conscience.