To Taylor Whitworth, knowing that she'll never meet her dead biological father is devestating. All she knows is he was a stockman, so she yearns to be like her father...and to become a jillaroo. She packs her bags and hits the road, destination unknown until she happens on the country township of Driftwood. Life-burdened Jay Cooper is a cowboy through and through, his passion for the outback and bad-boy image inerited from his forefathers. The whole twon whispers about him but Jay doesn't care. Except his rough and tumble lifestyl is stopped dead in it's tracks when he happens across Taylor on a deserted country road. And soon, their mutual love of horses begins a wonderful friendship that develops when Jay offers Taylor a job as a jillaroo on his cattle station.