Madison Preston wants nothing to do with the opposite sex. She only wants to teach the techniques of barrel racing, but doesn't have her own land to accommodate her dream. In order to earn enough money to buy her family home, she settles for training horses on the Double M ranch, but finds it hard to concentrate when a certain cowboy won't stay out of her way. Even her strong tongue-lashings do nothing more than encourage his sexual innuendoes.It's going to take a special man to help Maddie overcome her fears of intimacy and abuse. Especially when that man is a hot-blooded, sex-driven cowboy and his very being is dependent upon male-female relations. However, that's exactly what Jake Dutson does, until, that is, she finds him in the arms of another woman.All his life Jake Dutson wanted to take in and train abused horses. He has also wanted a place to call home, but being on his own since the tender age of sixteen he's never had that luxury, until now. He's determined to buy a house. He needs the land. What he doesn't need is an entanglement with a woman who has a tongue as sharp as a razor and doesn't mind using it. Believing he isn't interested in long term relationships, Jake's world is rocked when he discovers the only place he finds home is in Madison's arms.Now he only has to convince Maddie their love is worth the ride.