Hunter Blackwell was fiercely proud of his Apache heritage and intended to rear his orphaned godson according to tribal tradition. Trouble was, the boy's strong-willed and stunningly beautiful aunt clearly had other ideas. Hunter couldn't deny that young Billy's life had been enriched by Rina Roberts's warm and gentle ways. Nor could he deny that she stirred this Apache's passion.

But Hunter was a man who had been betrayed one too many times. Still, when he took Rina in his arms, he forgot all the reasons why he had sidestepped matrimony. And suddenly he was contemplating presenting Rina with a symbolic marriage basket and proposing the union of a lifetime!