Cecelia 'Cookie' Howard lived in the town of Eastham, two hours from Last Chance. She and Emmaline Mercer had been friends for as long as she could remember.
Leroy Watterson, Rachel Ashworthy's brother, had wanted Cookie to marry him after her mother passed away, even though he was seventeen years her senior.
Cookie left Eastham, trying to get away from Leroy's advances, and moved in with Rachel and her family.
Henry 'Hitch' McClain leaves Kansas to settle in Wyoming. After traveling through Last Chance, he stops an attempted abduction of Cookie by Leroy Watterson.
Hitch had no intention of staying in Last Chance, but he didn't have a choice when he was informed that he had to wait until the circuit judge returned to town.
While waiting for the trial to begin, Hitch and Cookie are attracted to each other, but is a few weeks enough time to fall in love?
