A gun slung low on his hip, Mitch Fallon doesn’t care who gets hurt when he goes to work for Colonel Dunkirk, a land baron set on grabbing up all the ranch land. Then he meets Charlie Houston, the beautiful owner of the Double H ranch. She will fight to keep her land, though it means going up against the brutal men hired by the colonel. To add to the danger, the Sioux and Cheyenne gather at the Little Bighorn, in wait for George Armstrong Custer. Charlie’s late night forays attract the gunslinger, who watches her dance in the lamplight of her cabin, and hears her singing to calm the milling cattle in the dark of night. The words bring tears to the tough man’s eyes.
“And high on the hill where the wild wind blows, she sits her strawberry roan. And cries to the wolf in the moon’s white glow, her heart turned hard as stone.”
Changing sides is easier than he thought, but winning Charlie proves formidable. Until one night out on the prairie in the quiet of the night his desire for herexplodes. He tucks a finger under her chin and raises her face. “It’s you I care about.” Her heart knocks around like it has broken loose and has no place to go.
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