When twenty-year-old Emma Brookstone arrives in the town of Bannack, Montana, her goal is to learn the truth about her father’s murder. To her complete shock, however, the person who introduces himself as the local marshal is none other than the man who gunned him down two years earlier.
Though Clive Brookstone was an evil man who needed killing, the knowledge that he left a young woman orphaned tore at Nathan Haskin’s conscience, and he has secretly provided for Emma’s needs since the day of her father’s death. Certain that hearing about her father’s legacy of lawlessness would break her heart, Nathan concealed it from Emma. Now that she is in Bannack, however, her persistence leaves him with little choice but to tell her the full story. But will the truth be enough to convince her to stop denying her growing feelings for him?
