Lorna's violet eyes glittered with the joy of riding fast and free across Light's Mountain, the Colorado range that was her birthright and fiercest passion. She was warned that dangerous men now roamed these hills, but no desperado could ride faster than this slip of a girl or outfight her with a whip or a knife.

Then big, sandy-haired Cooper Parnell strode into her life, a gun in his hand and passion in his eyes, and Lorna had no weapons against the desire that made her tremble like a tree in a storm. He was man enough to battle the lawless varmints after her innocence and her land...and to match her burning heart with his white-hot fire. But was he man enough to take her without taming her...or was her freedom the price of his life?