Wanted: Old-fashioned wife. No others need apply. York Wylinski, a hard-core homicide detective with old-fashioned values, yearns for a woman with the same sensibilities. A billboard ad seems like the perfect way to find her. But what he gets is a beautiful, conniving reporter on the trail of story. Jen Lyman is a thoroughly modern reporter. When she sees the billboard ad, she wants the scoop, and pretending to be an old-fashioned girl seems like the perfect way to get it. But what she gets is a gorgeous cop who just happens to be the detective in charge of the murder case she's pursuing. By the time York discovers Jen's deception, he's already falling for her. His first thought is to run like hell. That is, until he learns she's involved in his copycat Boston Strangler case. And what she knows could kill her...

Matt Ryan, cattle rancher, doesn't tell Molly Smith, former newspaper reporter, that he is more than just a rancher—he's is also a federal agent assigned to protect her and her baby. He hates lying, but the doctor warned him that if Molly remembers too fast it could cause a serious setback in her fight against amnesia. To protect Molly, Matt tells her they are married. Molly can't picture herself married to this controlling man and suspects he's lying. Determined to get at the truth, she digs around on her own. Was it only the men chasing her she should fear—or was this tall, dark stranger asking for her trust also a dangerous man?

Luke Ryan, desperate to rejoin the rodeo circuit and keep his daughter close, hires a nanny with no credentials. Amber can't remember her last name—or anything prior to waking up next to a dead man with a gun in her hand. Fearing arrest, she escapes Nevada to Texas to take a job for the sexiest cowboy she's ever seen. Slowly, Amber's memories resurface, and Luke offers to help solve the mystery of the dead guy. But the more she remembers, and the more witnesses questioned, anyone who helped her ends up dead. Working with the FBI, she and Luke must uncover the real killer before she gets Luke and his daughter killed.

Sara Jane Ryan, a feisty rodeo cowgirl, knows no fear...until she finds the body of her doppelganger on her daddy's ranch. Nick Reed has been hired to protect Sara Jane, but what she really needs is protection from herself. In spite of the sexual tension sizzling between them, she uses quick, practiced rodeo riding techniques to escape his watchful eye, leaving him red-faced and eating her dust. When a case from Nick's past merges with his present, and someone leaves threatening messages for Sara Jane, he has to step up his game before someone else gets hurt. Can they work together to find the killer before Sara Jane is taken out of the rodeo circuit for good?