Love and Oklahoma oil...

Brash and efficient, yet an incurable romantic, Princess "Cessy" Calhoun firmly believes in love at first sight. But at twenty-four she has never been smitten -- until a sophisticated gentleman named "Gerald" sweeps her off her feet. For her newfound romance Cessy will give up anything -- even her considerable fortune.

A handsome and rootless Rough Rider with a past and a crazy dream of "black gold," Tom Walker needed money and Cessy was swimming in it. So he created arefined alter ego to woo the rich man's daughter.

But Cessy's enthusiastic spirit is infectious. And from the ruins of his get-nich-quick scheme, Tom sees her in an appealing new light. But though he nowyearns for this remarkable stranger, Cessy's heart will never truly be his-not as long as the lady "Gerald" married loves a lie.