In the Wild West, a virtuous woman in the hands of a man who lived outsidethe law could only mean disaster.... The Widow: Beautiful Maggie Taylor wasthe soul of respectability, determined to earn an honest living for herselfand her two children in rough-and-tumble nineteenth-century California. TheBandit: Dominick Sanders was shrouded in mystery, known to Maggie as thenotorious Kissing Bandit -- a man who kissed women in the stages he robbed!It was enough to make Maggie's blood boil hotter ... and heart pound faster.The Marriage: But now these two are thrown together in a mock marriagedesigned to deceive the world, and Maggie has no choice but to trust theBandit. And as Maggie's mantle of respectability begins to slip away, shefinds herself doing things she would never have imagined....