Taryn Christiansen never shied away from hard work, yet the challenges she was facing were growing too quickly. She'd landed at the remote Aspen Creek Inn and Ranch desperate to prove herself as a hotel manager. If she could turn a profitable season for the troubled inn, a dream job at a glamorous downtown hotel was within her grasp. She didn't expect to fall in love with her co-manager, the disarmingly intuitive cowboy, Douglas Prescott. Or count on the small Aspen Creek community instilling a warm sense of home and belonging to her battered heart. She suddenly had every reason to stay. However, the very reasons she left her former job to find peace and solace are returning. The news of her previous employer's involvement in the inn's imminent foreclosure takes her by surprise and dismay. To make matters even more complicated, her ex-boyfriend, and former co-worker, has launched a blackmail and slander campaign against her. Taryn had gained everything at Aspen Creek, and now risks losing it all.