Running for her life, Kate Chandler flees to Oklanhoma with a price on her head, hoping to stake a claim in the Great Land Run of 1889. But with no money, no protection, no ood-and an unborn baby to think about-she is desperate enough to accept a devil's bargain from notorious bunty hunter Cole Youngblood. Ruggedly handsome, he'll stake her claim if she'll be a mother to his sister's three orphaned children-unaware of Kate's dangerous secret: she is thequarry he's bee hired to find.