On her deathbed, Lady Jane Worthington asks her eight-year-old daughter, Tarin, to promise her three things: live life as she pleases, do not succumb to an arranged marriage and, most of all, marry for love. After witnessing her mother's suffering and subsequent death, Tarin is determined to save others from the same fate. And nothing, not her noble status, nor society's refusal of women doctors, will keep her from making Gregory's first female medical college a reality. Rafe Sutherland, long-lost Brahmin rogue turned Texas Ranger, returns home after his father's mysterious death, bearing secrets. Rafe's wildly virile and arrogant persona, as well as his animosity with a college-supporting suitor, threatens Tarin's plans. And her father's continual matchmaking with the national hero makes Rafe completely out of the question. What Tarin doesn't realize is that Rafe comes with a little help from above, and what mother wants, mother gets.