Forced into marriage to stop a war between their families, cowboy Dawson Sullivan is bound to Sage Blackwater, the rival heiress and enemy's daughter he secretly loved and let go eight years ago.
Her contract demands separate bedrooms, and she still has not forgiven him, yet she defends Dawson when everyone else believes he is guilty.
Photographs from across the hall and a midnight phone call wreck his control; after a night in her bed, they choose the marriage for themselves.
Witnesses die, records burn, and someone framing both families comes for Sage.
Kidnapped so his captors can reach her, Dawson is as lethal as they expect, but they have not reckoned with what Sage will become when her husband is threatened.
