After the death of her father, photographer Alexandra Haywood returns to Whistledown, the family's magnificent horse farm. As Alex struggles to put her father's memory to rest, her teenage sister Neily falls hard for Eli Welch, whose father owns the struggling farm that borders Whistledown. Always protective of her trusting little sister, Alex sets out to confront Eli's father, Joe, and make sure Eli's not just after the Haywood money.
The proud and hardworking Joe Welch, meanwhile, isn't about to let some rich rhymes-with-witch Haywood woman call his boy a fortune hunter. Sparks of rage give way to a fiery attraction when Joe and Alex meet head-on. But just as a volatile passion begins flaring between them, the discovery of a shocking murder with ties to the past threatens to tear them apart. The body found on Whistledown property is just the beginning of a killer's spiraling web of terror. If someone is dead-set on keeping yesterday's secrets buried, he or she intends to destroy Alex and Joe's future bliss, as well -- because Alex has been targeted as the next victim.