Under a cruel desert sun a relentless passion. On the searing sands of New Mexico's wild, unforgiving territory, they met again. Once before, they had faced certain death together. Then, with reckless trust, she'd given herself to a final moment of happiness in the arms of a tender stranger. But fate had spared - and parted - them, sending her east to a new life in New York.driving him west to the frontier. He'd never forget the night he'd spent with the flame-haired, silken-skinned temptress. And now, as he guided the exquisite Elizabeth Curtin and her party through the remorseless desert in search of her missing husband and a legendary treasure, she was at his mercy, no longer a mere memory but a willful prize he would risk his life to win even as he swore he would never love her.