Will a broke lovesick cowboy choose a life of everlasting bliss with the woman he loves or a life of endless prosperity with the woman he doesn't? Thirty-two-year-old rancher Christopher falls hopelessly in love with 23-year-old headstrong yet damaged Greta Fay, a black social activist fighting for the rights of Clear Creek County's black citizens. For Christopher, it's love at first sight and his smoldering desire for Greta Fay threatens to ruin his chance of marrying socialite Minnie Locke and becoming a very rich man.