As she picked the stranger's pocket at a public hanging, Josie Cooper was swept into the steely arms of her intended victim, an angry gunslinger with a face so handsome it made her ache. Josie escaped. But Ethan Savage caught her again and gave her a choice: marriage or jail. It was strictly business: six months in England, then she was free-and rich. She couldn't say no. And she couldn't tell him the truth: she was already married-to a brutal outlaw who would track her to the ends of the earth...

Ethan thought he'd left his aristocratic past behind-until his family hunted him down, forcing him to return to England and claim an inheritance and a title he didn't want. All he needed was a bride, and Josie Cooper had to say yes. Now he had to turn the sometime dance-hall girl into a countess. Love had nothing to do with it-until he fell head over heels for the newly minted countess who took London by storm...