Chase and Maggie have their second child, Catherine. Ty is stressed out trying to learn the ranch functions and heads off to the University of Texas when he is 18 where he meets Tara Lee Dyson. He falls in love immediately, but she leads him a merry chase. After graduation Ty returns to the ranch with Tara eventually following. This marriage is not made in heaven--so much so that Ty seeks out Jessy Niles for comfort. Cat has a boyfriend in Repp Taylor. E.J. Dyson and Chase Calder are at odds over a 10,000 acre plot that Chase Calder thought he had purchased from the government and that Dyson wants to strip mine. The editing of the ebook that I read had multiple typos or electronic scanning errors which detracted from this book. ( )

Janet Dailey has always delivered a really good read and this is no exception.

FROM BACK COVER: Ty Calder was a stranger to the mighty empire that was his legacy - the ranchlands that rose to meet the Montana skies. He learned the ways of ranch life from young Jessy, who knew the land with her own heart.

But Ty worshiped dark, glamorous Tara, scion of the new "corporate West", of vast power and big money. Tara lured Ty on, greedy to be mistress of the Calder kingdom. Yet when her world rushed in to plunder the fortune beneath the prairies, it was Jessy who fought for Ty, defying death to save a birthright that was Calder born, Calder bred. ( )