Five-year-old Nicki Prescott isn't coping with her mother'sdeath—she's withdrawn, refusing to eat or leave her room. Indesperation, her father, Cordell Prescott, makes a phone callthat will change their lives.… Cord calls Dr. Becca Talbert, a close friend of his brother's,and asks her to come to Triple Creek Ranch to see Nicki. Tohelp Nicki. She agrees, and her presence starts to make adifference. But Cord's gratitude soon turns intosomething more.…Cord doesn't believe he has the right to love Becca, althoughhe realizes she's falling in love with him. He feels responsiblefor his wife's suicide—or apparent suicide. But he's not surehe can resist what Becca's offering.…