Texas billionaire, Crank Jackson, has just spent the last six years of his life behind bars languishing in an Austin prison for killing the man who killed his ex-wife, Georgia, and his only daughter Ellie. After being released on parole for good behaviour he leaves Austin and heads to his newly purchased cabin in Caddo Lake to be alone and grieve for his daughter in peace; something that he was unable to do properly whilst in jail. However, after having his heart completely shattered, the last thing he wants is to be around other people, especially gorgeous Clare Bennett, who sets his heart racing every time he is near her, and her beautiful and innocent daughter, Willow, who reminds him of the daughter he lost. Clare Bennett has also tragically lost her spouse - her husband Clay - in a light plane crash the previous year and now her and her daughter Willow have to vacate their family home in the affluent suburb of Woodlands in Houston because she can no longer make the payments. To give herself time to decide where they will live once it is sold Clare and Willow pack up their belongings and head to Caddo Lake for a couple of weeks to check out the small cabin her granddaddy left her in his will. The only problem is, from the moment Crank Jackson stopped to give her and her daughter a lift after her car broke down a few miles from her cabin, Clare hasn't been able to stop thinking about her tall, dark and handsome rescuer and to make matters worse she has just found out he owns the neighbouring cabin just fifty yards away from her own. Will Crank's new Caddo Lake neighbours, Clare and Willow Bennett, be just the remedy he needs to mend his broken heart or will he take the easy way out and stay away for fear of getting hurt all over again?