Local sheriff Jed Cannon's heart comes to a stammering stop with the return of Mattie Forrester to Canyon Creek. It's one thing to dig up his broken heart but completely another that his old flame has taken the District Attorney job in town. Instead of playing court and law, he'd rather be sparing with her in his bed. Big-time Philadelphia Lawyer, Mattie Forrester has returned home once and for all. Tired of the city life she has led, she expects to find a slower pace and take the local court system by storm. That is until she crosses paths with Jed Cannon the local sheriff, the one and only man who has ever pleased her in the many ways a woman deserves.