Ophelia West has spent her life looking over her shoulder, a gunfighter with a price on her head and dust in her veins. But when the law finally catches up to her in Virginia City, it wears the granite jaw and unyielding gaze of Marshal Roscoe Rihanna. He does not just want to lock her up; he sees a fire in her that he is desperate to tame.
Facing the consequences of her past, Ophelia is offered a shocking alternative to a jail cell. Roscoe needs a wife to bear his child, and he offers her a choice.