Spinster schoolteacher Eden Devlin was desperate when she convinced rancher and nester wives to withold sex from their husbands until they agreed to end a devastating range war. But frustrated husbands hired gunslinger Burke Kerrigan to seduce Miss Devlin. But Kerrigan quickly learns that it's not easy to hoodwink an educated woman and the battle results in an all-or-nothing love that takes both by surprise.