Cricket Stewart, the youngest daughter of a wealthy planter, vows never to be a wife, until Texas Ranger Jarrett Creed saves her from avenging Comanches by claiming her as his bride.

Cruz Guerrero wanted Sloan Stewart from the first moment he laid eyes on the headstrong beauty. But sloan, eldest daughter of a wealthy cotton planter, belonged to another man--until the day she came to him, a woman in trouble on the lawless frontier . . . and he made her an offer she could not refuse. Now he is ready to claim what is rightfully his--even as a long-ago betrayal threatens to tear her from his arms forever.