Thirteen years ago penniless young lovers Brandon Bear Hunter and Morning Skye had pledged themselves to each other, body and soul. Yet Brandon had left to seek his fortune . . . and Skye had wed another.

Now a savage twist of fate bound them together again, to battle a blaze that threatened widowed Skye's inheritance-all that Brandon despised. In twenty-four hours of relentless torment and sudden, naked passion, the blistering heat licked at their senses, seared away bitterness, and forged new dreams. But Skye and Brandon had been