A l'ombre des souvenirs

Jordan Donovan is having little success as a New York based fine arts photographer, she not understanding that in trying to stand out from the crowd, she is not being true to her passion and own artistic vision. Her relationship of five years to lawyer Edward Morgan is not much better, it stagnant in Edward not wanting to commit. When the proposal of marriage does not come from Edward as she expects on her birthday, Jordan, to make Edward jealous, decides to follow through with what her best friend Carla Dimaggio initiated. On Jordan's behalf without telling her, Carla answered a lonely-hearts ad in Country Connections - a dating magazine for the rural set - of Wyoming rancher Tyler Ross, who in turn sent a plane ticket for Jordan to come for a visit. What Jordan and Carla don't know is that widowed Tyler is solely fulfilling a promise to his sister Laurie Woods that in meeting someone - anyone - through the ad, Laurie will no longer hound him to get back into the dating scene. As such, Tyler, beyond believing Jordan a pretentious urbanite, makes no effort to welcome Jordan, which, in turn, makes Jordan want to get back to New York as soon as possible. While in Wyoming, Jordan cannot help but fall in love with rugged scenery and the cause of open range management, especially the ongoing battle Tyler is having with Hank Jamison, that battle which has an underlying personal bent. In Jordan getting caught up in all that Wyoming has to offer, Jordan and Tyler start to fall for each other, which they may not themselves see in their initial reasons for this situation, Jordan to get into wedded bliss with Edward, and Tyler to remain true to his deceased wife, Sarah.