WIN OR LOSE HE WOULD TAKE HER--IN PASSION... OR IN ANGER!Beautiful, successful Alexis Stone had everything a woman could dreamof--money, beautiful clothes, a glamorous job in her father's Dallas oilcompany, handsome men clamoring for her attention--yet something wasmissing... until the day she landed her private plane on the sun-scorcheddesert of the Texas Panhandle and first saw Brant McClure's lean, strongbody and brooding, dark-gold eyes. The moment their eyes locked, Alexis felta blaze of desire she had never known before. But she had come to fight thisrugged, unyielding rancher for the oil rights to his land --the land heloved more than any woman. And her father was a man Brant McClure hatedenough to kill. Alexis knew she possessed a terrible secret weapon thatwould drive this angry sensual stranger from his land and back to the armsof his sultry-eyed mistress. But she also knew that no power on earth couldcool the burning desire that drew them together--a passion that would not bestopped... could not be stopped... no matter how high the stakes!