He stole a fortune and She's about to steal his hearth.
Cal Vance is a wanted man. With a bounty on his head and his gang loaded down with the stolen riches of the Silver Comet train, the ruthless outlaw needs a place to lay low. The muddy, desperate prospector camp deep in Red Bluff Canyon is the perfect hideout. Blending in as an impoverished dirt-farmer from Missouri should be easy. The hard part? Pretending to be happily married to the infuriating, wildly dangerous woman he dragged into the wilderness with him.
Arabella Thorne isn't a helpless captive. The runaway heiress to a Texas cattle empire traded her silk corsets for denim overalls and a six-shooter long ago. Sharp-tongued and stubbornly defiant, Arabella plays her part as Cal's "devoted wife" by day, enduring the scorching heat and the suspicious eyes of the camp. But by night, confined to a single, claustrophobic tent, the line between fake marriage and burning reality begins to blur.
As a ruthless local warlord threatens to burn the camp to the ground, and a relentless Pinkerton agent closes in on their trail, Cal and Arabella must fight back-to-back to survive. But the deadliest war they wage might just be the one within their own tent. In a world ruled by gunpowder, grit, and greed, yielding to the raw, explosive passion between them might be the most dangerous gamble of all.
