Kelly Malone thought she’d forgotten all about bad boy Samuel One-Horse Watson, her childhood crush, until she runs into him in need of her services as a midwife.

He doesn’t want her around, but he’s drawn to her as he was so long ago, and he needs her. And she’s not about to desert her patient, even if it turns out to be a tame buffalo about to give birth to a white calf.

But too many people are threatening the upcoming blessed event, and the two of them are cut off from help—they’ve only got each other.

Sometimes that’s enough.