Jessica Collier was on the run. What better place to hide than a remote Colorado ranch? And who'd expect a Collier to be working as a housekeeper? Here, her son was happy... and safe. Her boss might be rawhide tough and a scandalous tease, but he was a decent man -- a man she could easily love.

Brash Hank Rawlins believed in need and desire, not love. For now, his alluring housekeeper needed him, and his desire was no secret, so he proposed a most convenient marriage. Jessica would keep her son... and Hank would satisfy his hankering. But soon he found he couldn't get enough of sweet Jessie. Hell's bells, could this be love?