Cop turned U.S. Marshal Gabriel McBride was shot and bleeding, and had nowhere to go except the very woman who wanted nothing to do with him ever again. He'd been ambushed while tracking a fugitive, a hit man he'd unwittingly brought straight to Alessandra Norris' very door.

It was this lifestyle that had driven a wedge between them: the risk taking, the secrets, and the danger that went with the badge. And now Alessandra was right in the thick of things, fleeing into the Black Hills with a rifle scope aimed at her back and a rogue marshal at her side. But the worst danger came from McBride himself--a man whom she'd never stopped loving since the day they met.

Good read. ( )