When a misunderstanding in Dry Gulf, Montana, puts an angry mob on Pierce Delaney's trail and a bullet in his back, he is forced to take refuge with Zoey Fuller--a headstrong lady who needs a temporary husband to foil the schemes of a thieving banker who is after her ranch. Though she doesn't trust this handsome stranger whom she nurses back to health, and he wants nothing to interfere with his freedom, ultimately neither can resist their passions or the love that grows stronger every day.