A man as dangerous as the merciless land he claims and the only woman who can tame them both... Victoria Waverly may look like a delicate Southern belle, but the years of the Civil War have hardened her backbone to steel. She is willing to do anything to save her family from starvation, seven marry a vicious New Mexico rancher twice her age. To her horror, she discovers that her new husband gained the vast Kingdom Ranch through two brutal murders. Then she meets the enigmatic gunslinger Jake Roper, whose hard body and tightly controlled anger fill her with an unfamiliar frightened excitement that sets her heart pounding. Jake has waited twenty years to reclaim his rightful inheritance...and to exact retribution. Yet now a beautiful woman is bringing his long-dead heart back to life. If he succumbs to her gentle sweetness, his plans for revenge may go awry. But if he holds true to his course, both Jake and Victoria will lose the promise they so recently found in the passion of their kisses....

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