CLEESE STARRETT: A businessman, cattleman and expert fisherman who thought the way to a good woman's heart was through an extra rod, dry flies and a ideal spot on the river.

LAUREL DREW: A woman who knew being in trouble meant she had no right to be in love, no matter how tempting the man who was trying to reel her in.

Cleese was well aware that the fish that struggled the hardest and gave him the most hell was the one he had to catch. So when the sad-eyed, secretive woman he caught poaching in his river ignored his every attempt to lure her closer, he came up with a different bait. And that was how Cleese found himself knee-deep in murky water full of sharks....