Charlotte "Charlie" Saxon returns to Whispering Willow Horse Ranch in Jackson, Wyoming, to take over the ranch from her later father. She's met with a neighbor hell-bent on taking the ranch from her, convinced that "a woman like you is too soft to handle these boys" and can't run the ranch. Little does the neighbor know that Charlie is not one to back down from a fight. Besides, she has the best ranch foreman a woman in her position ever needed, Jake McAuley, a man fifteen years her senior who also happens to be her former lover.

When Jake hears that Charlie is home for good, he makes it his mission to pick up where they left off when she left for college. And she's going to need all the help she can get if she's going to keep the ranch going. When a winter blizzard overcomes the ranch, it's all Jake can do to get the wranglers and Charlie through the worst of it. Throw into the mix a stallion that's a rare breed in the barn, a mare that is about to foal, and no electricity, and Jake has his hands full.

Brought together again by tragedy, Jake and Charlie must work together to keep the Whispering Willow Horse Ranch afloat through obstacles determined to get in their way. The only way Jake knows how to get through it is by Taming the Rancher's Daughter.