Cole Reynolds is an outsider.

He's lived in High Mountain all his life but never felt he belonged. That's okay, though. He's a man who likes his space—and in West Texas there's plenty of it.

But everything changed the day he met Taylor Matthews. He was guiding Taylor and her husband through a remote part of the desert when someone shot at them. Cole and Taylor were wounded and her husband was killed.

Now Taylor's back—determined to find out what really happened. And like it or not, Cole knows he has to keep her safe….