Beautiful, defiant Diana Preston ran her sprawling family ranch with matchless skill. She was as wild and untamed as the palomino she rode across her beloved Texas grasslands--and no man alive could break her fiery spirit. But now trouble had galloped into town in the seductive guise of Vince Gannon. Drawn against her will to the hard-muscled gunslinger, Diana couldn't deny the powerful yearning he awoke in her restless heart. A man of dark secrets, he would sweep her into his world of rugged danger and intoxicating desire...daring Diana to match his searing passion kiss for kiss in a rapturous surrender of the soul that branded her his for all time!