Recently released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Cane Smith returns to Bozeman to claim the son he's never met, only to discover the boy's mother is dead and the boy has been adopted by a rancher and is being raised by his twenty-year-old daughter, Annie. 
 When Annie refuses to part with the boy, Cane makes her an offer: Miss Annie will have to marry him if she wants to keep the boy in her life. Annie will do anything to keep her little boy with her-but can she live with the hard, rough Cane Smith?