Fern Sproull, a young, opinionated ruffian,is determined Hen Randolph will hang for killing her cousin. She's equally determined that a fancy lawyer named Madison Randolph isn't going to get his brother off. Fern has spent the last eight years outriding, and out cussing every man in her path, and she's not about to let the man who murdered her cousin get off just because he's a Texas Randolph.

Monty Randolph plans to take a herd to Wyoming. He means to start a ranch to get out from under the irritating and watchful eye of his older brother. He's determined that nothing will stop him from succeeding, especially his neighbor, Iris Richmond, who wants him to take her own herd. The last thing he needs is a southern belle, steeped in flirting and vanity, on the filthy, exhausting trek.

While Tyler Randolph is prospecting for gold he finds a woman wounded and left to die. He can't take her into Albuquerque so he takes her to his cabin. Daisy Singleton has no idea who tried to kill her. Awakening with a head wound in a strange man's cabin, she doesn't know whether to be afraid or angry. Together, they set out to unmask a killer and to discover their true feelings for each other.

Jefferson Randolph is angry at the world for the destruction of his family during the Civil War. Embittered and reclusive, he won't be happy until he marries a true Southern belle and rebuilds his family home. Violet Goodwin has come West to discover what happened to her uncle. When Jeff Randolph is quarantined with her for five days she wonders how she can be so attracted to a man she dislikes.

Hen Randolph's reputation as a cold-hearted gunslinger without a need for friends, family or women, was the reason he was hired to be the sheriff of Sycamore Flats. He saves a young widow. Laural Blackthorne, from a beating - but she has no need for gunslingers or guns and she can't decide whether he's a saint or a fool. In the end she decides that having a man be a fool over her isn't half bad.

Zac Randolph owns and runs the Little Corner of Heaven Saloon in San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast. He's a gambler by trade and by nature. He takes care of the girls who work for him. His life is perfect until a distant cousin, Lily Sterling, arrives from Virginia and upsets everything. He should have known that where there's a flower woman, there's a Randolph about to lose his heart.