Aspen Sundance is running from a past that could get her hanged, but hiding as a mail-order bride on the Dallas ranch might be her most dangerous gamble yet.

Rhett Dallas expected a submissive wife, not a firebrand with a gun in her garter and secrets in her eyes. As the heat of the Arizona desert pales in comparison to the friction between them, Aspen must decide if she is playing a part or losing her heart to the mountain of a man who claims to own her.