Mattie Cairns is a coyote with a dream. And some would say becoming the premier oil tycoon of Texas is a dream too big. But for Mattie, the cowgirl that she is, it’s just the final step before leaping away from her past.

Things get complicated when she meets Wilson Baker, a human geologist hailing from northern academia. The man has something to prove, but to whom no one knows, and he won’t stop until he has.

The pairing couldn’t be more opposite. But together, their commonalities come to light as they weather the plot-scheming and business-dealing barons of the early twentieth century oil industry.