Faced with the loss of her family's plantation, Jude Latour's only hope of staving off financial ruin is by finding her adoptive father, who's been missing since the end of the Civil War. Desperate, she turns to bounty hunter Tucker Boone--a man with an eye for the ladies, and a reputation for bringing in his man. What she doesn't know is that this tough gun-for-hire harbors a deadly secret and will steal her heart.