Leaving her finishing school behind, Mara Shannon McCall comes back to Wyoming, determined to reclaim the ranch that was her father's legacy. With a derringer in her pocket and her heart beating wildly, she rides toward the home she barely remembers - only to find a wounded man, Pack Gallagher, lying across the trail. Looking into his midnight-blue eyes as proud as her own, Mara knows that here is a man who can help defend her land from outlaws and with whom she can share her deepest secrets. But Pack is a fighter with a temper. And he could just as easily break her heart as make all her dreams come true.