She vows to kill him....he'll risk everything to protect her!

Lily Carrington sees the name of an infamous killer on the payroll of her new lumber company and leaves her cushy San Francisco office to journey into the untamed wilderness and avenge her father’s death. Unprepared for the turmoil of a lumber camp torn apart by financial strain, Lily finds herself at the mercy of lumberjacks willing to do anything to get their pay. A handsome stranger determined to keep the peace becomes her sole protector—the very man she’s sworn to kill.

Juniper Barns has sought out a secluded life to escape the ghosts of his past, men seeking revenge for those he'd killed during his youth as a gunfighter. Realizing his new pretty boss has come with vengeful intentions, Juniper knows his troubles have just begun. As they work together to bring the lumber camp under control, their mutual desire becomes a new threat.

Can they overcome a past built on vengeance to find love in their future?

No matter what he believes about the saloon girl's past---he'll protect her future with his life!
Pulled off a train in Nevada by the henchmen sent to drag her back to Missouri and the Nightingale Saloon, Rachell prays for deliverance. A stranger appears from the shadows and frees her from her captors. Once in the care of her reluctant hero, Rachell wonders if she is any safer in the arms of a man whose eyes make her pulse quicken and gentle hands dare her to believe in the fable of love.
Jed knows he's in for trouble when the widowed boarding house keeper he's come to retrieve turns out to be a scantily-clad saloon girl. He vows to protect Rachell and get her safely to California, after he takes care of the trouble on her tail by luring them to Shadow Canyon. As they face the feral wilderness of Utah and the man determined to keep Rachell’s voice in his saloon, it is Rachell's innocent passion that becomes Jed's greatest threat, threatening to bring the light of love into his shadowed soul.