Two men are wounded during a train robbery in frontier Colorado and left on Abigail McKenzie's doorstep to be nursed back to life.
Gentle, loving David promises her a happiness she'd lost hope of finding and is all a lady could wish for. Jesse stands for everything she hates; he's rude, violent, roughly handsome and disturbingly sensual.
But it is Jesse's mocking mouth that troubles Abigail's dreams, Jesse who makes her feel a hundred things a lady should never know, Jesse who challenges her every waking hour. Abigail fights with all the stiff propriety her stubborn will commands . . . but in her burn the aching embers of long too long denied - love that will force her to a choice no woman should ever have to make . . .
