Just when Charitys wild imagination failed her, a flesh-and-blood hero walked into her life.Best-selling author Charity Anderson returns to her hometown of Kings Meadow to defeat a bad case of writers block. She imagines shell spend a lonely summer writing and then return to her home in Boise. She soon finds herself caring for Buck Malone, a wilderness guide--and the object of her unrequited teenage crush. But what else can she do? Her dog Cocoa caused the accident that left Buck with a broken ankle and wrist, taking him off the trail for weeks of prime tourist-season work.Buck and Charity have gone different ways since high school, and at first it seems they have little in common. Buck loves the simple, low-key life hes made for himself in the mountains of Idaho, and shes a woman accustomed to the faster, bustling pace of the city.