Troian McNeil is a bit wild… having finished her growing up without her mother. She is every bit the lady in polite company, but this lady picks fights with errant hands and manages the family farm in the midst of crisis with aplomb. She's successfully kept suitors at bay for a decade, but now she's quite suddenly faced with a marriage she can't refuse with one man and a passion she can't deny with another. Little does she know, they are one and the same man!

Jon Rafael Martell is proud, so much so he cannot stand the thought of the fiancé he doesn't want kissing some other man (though he is the other man in question!) Though generous and forgiving he still retains enough of the boy in him to delight in thwarting his betrothed's plans for marriage... until he decides he wants this marriage. Now, his plots turn to getting her to fall in love with him.

But she won't lose this battle without a fight; she will marry her intended, no matter how wonderful the blaggard who'd stolen her heart.