Lovely Claire Cavanaugh returned home to find her family home and fortune lost---but her innocent heart leaped for joy when handsome Tyler McCane came to the rescue. Devastatingly masculine, he seemed a knight in shining armor as he helped her out of hot water, and healed her broken heart. But when Tyler finally made her a proposal, he wasn't suggesting a lifetime of married bliss--no, Claire was horrified to find he was discussing business!

Tyler wanted Claire's land badly, and he planned to own it no matter who got hurt. But her spirited beauty and faith in him unexpectedly touches his heart--and soon this life-long scoundrel finds himself changing his wicked ways. Could it be possible that this small-town girl had stolen his wayward heart?