Daniel considers himself luck when he is asked to fill in for High Sierra's injured guitar player. But soon after he and Tally Dean fall in love, he learns that Tally is determined to make her mark in big-time music, no matter what. Then he feels betrayed when he Brian tells him that he and Tally once had a short-lived but intense romance.

Soon after Sophie Barton, a beautiful young divorcee and single parnet from San Fransisco, moves into the run-down ranch that she has inherited down the road from the McFadden spread, she and Hannh become friends. But sparks fly when Sophie tells Adam that he can no longer graze McFadden cattle on her land, breaking an agreement going back 30 years between her grandfather and Adam's father, and soon she is placed in peril by a stampede and barn-burning.