In the small town of Cougar, struggling single mother and
veterinary assistant Teresa Lansing is still bruised from a failed relationship
when Frank McAllister sweeps her off her feet. Frank is a big-city SWAT officer who moved to Cougar only
four months ago. He’s handsome, charming, forceful, very sexy, and a bit
mysterious. He had his eye on Teresa even before they met and is pushing for a
serious relationship right away. Teresa finds his intense courtship flattering, and the sex is
fabulous, but she doesn’t want her deaf six-year-old son to be hurt again. Her
former fiancé cheated on her when he got drunk after being unjustly fired, but
he loves her and her son, and the whirlwind romance is complicated by his
efforts to win Teresa back. And then there’s the matter of the bodies buried at
Big Devil Creek…