Scorched by the dark fires of love, Julie Hollstrom races

the challenge of the open frontier with a strength born

of heartbreak and scandal. She desperately tries to mask

her own delicate beauty, to deny the very passion that

sings in her blood. Now fate draws Julie to the one man

who can reawaken the woman in her. A handsome

outcast haunted by the memory of unspeakable tragedy,

Del Morgan, with his b~ng green eyes, turns Julie s icy

reserve into flaming desi, e. Once a prosperous doctorl

now branded a no-good rake,

Del knows thatJulie is his !;~ "j

last chance--for only she ~.l

sees the worthy man behind ~I

the reckless facade. And

because a woman will risk ~:/

anything for love, Julie

dared a suitor s deadly ~.