Is love is better the second time around?

With a bad marriage behind her and the note on her horse ranch coming due, young widow Katherine Logan has neither the time nor the inclination to save a low-down bandit, until the sight of wickedly tempting Jake Banner changes her mind. Taking advantage of a local custom, she saves him from the hangman's noose, but Jake's secrets run deeper than the crime that put him there.

Though the War Between the States is over, the tension in Missouri still runs high. Former Confederate soldiers have banded together to form outlaw gangs—robbing trains, stages and banks. Second Chance, Missouri stands in the center of all the action. Jake and Katherine find themselves drawn into the wildness of the west and the temptation of each other.

Can they save Katherine's ranch, round up the bad guys and . . . fall in love?