All it takes is one worthy man...  Jefferson Randolph left the war a bitter man who'd seen too much loss. He once dreamt of marrying and settling down like the rest of his rowdy Randolph brothers, but that's in the past. He gave too much to the war, and what's left is scarred and broken. When he's called to Denver to sort out a mishap at his nieces' boarding school, he expects to handle it quickly and with his usual authority, but he hadn't counted on Miss Violet Goodwin. Violet might be the first woman not to back down from the gruff Jeff Randolph, and she's the first to stir something in his broken heart. What started as disdain for this independent woman and her brash ways is turning more and more to desire, and with her, Jeff might have a chance at the future he thought he'd lost.