They were two untamed outcasts on a Texas-bound wagon train-two passionate travelers united by need, threatened by pasts they could not outrun. Lydia Bryant is voluptuous and russet haired, fleeing from a secret shame, vowing that never again would a man, any man, overpower her. Ross Coleman is dark, brooding, and iron willed, with the shadow of a lawless past in his piercing eyes, sworn to resist the temptation of his wanton longings. Fate threw them together on the same wild road, where they fought the breathtaking desire blazing between them, while the shadows of their enemies grew longer. As the wagon train rolled west, the danger to them drew ever closer, until a showdown with their pursuers was inevitable. Before it was over, Lydia and Ross would face death, the truth about each other, and the astonishing strength of their love.