Emmett is a hot headed and hot body cowboy who rides bulls at the rodeo, drinks until he drops, and fights at the drop of his hat. Michelle, his sister, is the only person who has any say over his bad cowboy attitude until William moves into a into town. William survived an ambush in Afghanistan, took a job with the CIA, New York City to stay in a similar career path, but ten years with Army and ten more with the CIA wore his skin down to the bone. Everyone dreams of home by a stream and William found that home in Wyoming. He hoped to leave the work of the CIA and the horror of the ambush for a life on horseback, but Emmett tears his dreams apart. Michelle realizes something different about her brother when he's in William's company, longing. To save himself, William will have to reconcile the deaths of his Army buddies and give up his life savings to save Emmett's life or go back to to the CIA in New York.