Lorna McAllister will risk life and limb to do her job as a veterinarian. She loves animals and has invested her every penny to build a new practice in the small town of Colville, Washington.Lorna is very content with her chosen life of solitude and was content to do nothing more with her life until a forest fire has her running for her life and into the arms of the one man that threatens to put a match to all her well laid plans.Tyler Kincaid is a rancher and a wildland firefighter. He has no problem risking his life to save people unless they purposely keep putting themselves in the path of danger. From the moment he met wildly beautiful and fiercely independent Lorna McAllister, he realized that she was trouble. There is someone lighting the country on fire and Tyler is determined to find out who before it costs him his life and the woman he loves.