After the death of her father, Jane goes and stays with her brother, Chance. But after she literally runs into Duke, Chance's ex alcoholic deputy she's forced to take him home. Chance disappointed and ashamed by the deputy he's disowned, doesn't want his sister near this failure. Will Chance's big brother routine keep them apart or draw them closer together.

Katherine Burdette has come back early from the ladies school back east, and the first thing she finds out is that her brother Joe has murdered a man. Nathan and Katherine were close growing up, and it pains her to take sides against him, but she is a woman who believes in justice. Even if it is her own brothers who must face it.

Fifteen years after the movie, Colorado comes back through town.