at twentyfive after five years as her mothers caregiver its time for shelby to experience freedom and adventure time for travel college and romance but when she visits virgin river she runs into luke riordan decidedly not whom she has in mind a handsome blackhawk pilot luke exited the army after twenty years four wars and having been shot out of the sky three times at thirtyeight hes tough and jaded his major was in onenight stands with a minor in commitment avoidance technically these two are all wrong for one another but sometimes what you want and what you need are two different thingstwo very good things