Marik Youngblood left her Oklahoma hometownand the child she gave up for adoptionintent on becoming an artist instead of a rancher. Her fathers death brings her back to a failing cattle operation, a pile of debt and a haunting need to find the child she left behind. But when the bones of an infant are unearthed on her familys ranch, Marik fears shes learned her daughters fate.

Burt and Lena Gurdman own the property that neighbors Killdeer Ridge Ranch. Lena is poor and uneducated, with a husband whos quick to blame her for any perceived wrong, but she knows she and Marik have more in common than the property line between them. She, too, has a secretbut to reveal the truth, she must find the courage to explore a past she buried long ago.