She dropped from the tree into his arms like a ripe peach, a fiery russet-haired beauty he wanted to devour. But mountain man Sam Taggart came to the Recht Montana homestead to hire a housekeeper, not find a wife. He was out to make his fortune and needed an heiress by his side, a first-rate hostess with a heart of pure ice. Emma Recht was definitely not what he had in mind--a spirited backwoods beauty with a head for business and passion to burn...

He was tall, dark, and dangerous, the handsomest man she'd ever seen. Emma Recht had all she could do to keep from melting in his arms. Sam said she wasn't his kind of woman--but his burning eyes put the lie to his lips. Recklessly she agreed to follow him into the wilderness, certain she was everything he ever needed after a night of wild abandon in the darkened room of a bordello...when he thought she was someone else...