Thirty-four year-old Jill Benson struggles to carve out a life for herself and her twin teens as owner of a small resort in Central Oregon, Pine Lake Retreat. Her husband, an aid worker, died a victim of a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Jill vows never to marry another man who risks his life at his family's expense. Chainsaw carver and cowboy Rick Sawyer, Jill's sometime handyman, a maverick with a past, doesn't fit into her plans for the future...