Arroyo of the Heart

[close] Harper witnesses a mobster murder, but will not agree to testify. For insurance, the mob kills her dog to keep her quiet. The wrong thing to do. Now, she is anxious for revenge. In the Witness Protection Program, the authorities move her from Philadelphia to a safe house in Coconino County, Arizona. There less than a day, she sees a man apparently beating a horse. She confronts him. The attraction of the two opposites is instantaneous. But remembering what happened to her dog, Harper blows her cover inadvertently to get the sheriff or the Humane Society to do something about the animal abuse. When she can get no action, she “rescues” the horse in question. But she does so in the midst of a local rustling spree. She is arrested and the news media makes her famous as the “queen of the horse thieves.” Now in emergency mode to save her from a bullet to the head, the FBI temporarily places her with the man she so detests, the horse beater, Cody Chase. Living in the same house with a person she can’t st