Learning that her rancher father has been shot and killed in Arizona, delicately raised Bryony Hill leaves her sheltered life in St. Louis and travels west to take charge of her father's ranch. But when outlaws attack her stagecoach, the peaceful journey becomes a nightmare — until rugged gunfighter Texas Jim Logan shows up, rescues her, and takes Bryony to safety. But sharing one stolen, reckless kiss with the powerful gunfighter who protected her sparks a wildfire passion neither of them ever expected — until Bryony learns that the man who saved her and kissed her is the very man who killed her father in a gunfight. She tries to hate Texas Jim Logan, and to push him away, but as danger edges closer she finds the courage to trust — and seek the truth... and to follow the deepest yearnings of her heart.