When a bull-riding accident ends Ross Turner's rodeo career, he hermits himself away on a remote farm in New Brunswick. Depressed and disheartened, he's determined to leave his cowboy life behind. Beautiful Jessi Wallace, sent to help him out of his crisis, is resolved that he won't do any such thing. She has healed dispirited horses; she can bring him back from his defeat. And living alone in the farmhouse with him doesn't bother her. After their childhood together, she feels certain handsome, charismatic Ross holds no romantic threat to her. Recently betrayed by her rodeo cowboy fiance, she's not about to let another rodeo rider into her heart.