描述
Kalida Ryland can never remember a time she hasn't despised her neighbor, Deuce Cavender. He 's a man who always gets what he wants, and he wants her -- and, even more, he wants the prime Ryland rangeland that will be hers someday. And her feckless father has already given his blessing in exchange for being invited to join Cavender's cattle syndicate when the deal is done. He'll allow nothing to prevent it, not even Kalida's fervent promise that she will save them somehow. Deuce Cavender has been half in love with Kalida since she was fifteen. Now she's a woman who hates him with the ferocity of a mountain lion -- and a woman who could love with equal ferocity if only she'd let herself. But she believes he and his cattle syndicate are only out dominate all of southern Montana -- and her. The Ryland ranch is the last impediment his ambition, and Deuce's price is Kalida will be his wife. Even as she swears she will never ever marry him, she's caught in a web of betrayal which can only lead right into Deuce's arms -- and his bed.