For years Sally Baxter's ungrateful family had taken advantage of her, never giving her time for a life of her own. They were outraged when she told them she was going to Australia. She was determined, however, to make a new life on a friend's ranch.

But she had reckoned without arrogant landholder Grant Forsythe. He wanted the girls to leave so he could buy their ranch, yet Sally couldn't keep from falling in love with him.

When he asked her to marry him, it seemed too good to be true. And maybe it was. Had he asked because he loved her, or because, once she left, her friend Josie would have to sell the ranch?