
Claire and Tess are half-sisters who are separated when Tess' mom leaves their father, Jack, when the girls are little. Twenty years later, Jack is dead and Claire is struggling to run the ranch on her own. Tess, now aliented from Claire, returns because she needs a place to stay. But she's soon drafted to help her older sibling and the other women running the ranch: housekeeper Meg, her daughter Jodi, local resident Becky and later, friends Stevie and Kate.

Pregnancy scare; Jodi fights for the respect of the local farmers; Harry receives death threats.

Kate fears she may have skin cancer; confusing dreams lead Tess to think Nick could be alive; Moira is forced to question her psychic abilities.

Nick returns home, but suffers terrifying flashbacks of his time in Argentina; Jodi follows Kate as she goes to visit a cancer specialist.

Nick announces he would like to return to Argentina; Tess faces a dilemma over whether she is really ready to leave Drovers Run; Jodi makes a discovery about a sneaky journalist.