For Charley Winters love means loss and pain. She's spent the last five years struggling with her grief. Existing, not living, dreaming of the man she lost. Drawn to Saskatchewan, she travels west to take the job she's always wanted, a Transportation Technology teacher in a high school. This is her chance to prove that a female mechanic can do the job as well as a male one, but Mother Nature has a different idea as a string of vicious tornadoes work their way through the area.

Since his near-death experience, Sergeant Bill Murdock of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has dreamed of a gorgeous woman, the fantasies so real that they leave him breathless. He's convinced she needs him as much as he needs her, but he has no idea where to find her. When he's called to Fort Qu'Appelle to get a statement from the Nakoda chief about the problems they've been having with bikers, the last thing he expects is to rescue the woman of his dreams.

But getting her to accept him may not be as easy as he hopes. Can Charlie set aside her memories, release the man she loved, and find happiness in the arms of another?