Sheriff Rafe Wilson is up to his eyeballs in trouble, starting with his father and those retired Texas Ranger cronies of his and ending right at the the door to the new dressmaker’s shop where Peony Potter has become an insufferable but intriguing irritation. Fleeing a past she’d rather forget, Peony Potter has come a long way from mending the dresses ladies in her mama’s house of ill repute and is now well respected in her new home of Cut Corners, Texas. With Rafe poised to leave town and join the Rangers like his father and Peony hiding a secret that threatens all she has worked so hard to overcome, can these two sparring souls quit their bickering and realize they’ve fallen in love before it is too late?