Detective Jane Rizzoli embarks on a relationship with the new medical examiner, Dr. Maura Isles, while she is faced with her career changing case, The Surgeon. How it all began. Rizzles. Rated M in later chapters.

An AU set in the Old West. Why? Because I want to know how a proper, aspiring female doctor would react to a driven, hard-as-nails woman on the range. They don't know it yet, but Maura's fiancee just met his match.