Crystal Creek where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. Ken Slattery, foreman at the Double C, knows what he wants. He wants Nora Jones. But Nora already has a man in her lifeher eight-year-old son, Rory. Besides, her ex-husband has threatened to kill any man who stakes a claim on her and he's on his way home to Crystal Creek for the holiday weekend.