After her fiance is killed, Cat Calder, a Montana rancher's daughter vows never to marry, but sex with a stranger is acceptable. The result is a son and years later when the stranger is appointed sheriff and she faces danger her vow is tested.

Delaney Westcott is a beautiful career woman in a man's world. Owner and chief asset of a personal security business -- where she guards the rich and famous from the unwanted attention of friends and enemies -- she can take care of herself. Except for the one time she didn't: when she fell headlong for handsome cowboy Jared McCallister, a man she couldn't have. After it ended suddenly, Delaney threw herself into her work with a fury and intensity...

The story of the Trail of Tears, the forcible removal west of the Cherokee Indians from their home in Georgia. It is told as a romance between two Cherokees, The Blade Stuart, a plantation owner who sees the writing on the wall and wants to take action--better a new home than to be wiped out--and Temple Gordon, an educated, idealistic woman who opposes giving in. By the author of Tangled Vines.