From the moment Roan Taggart picked up the pretty redhead at the Jackson Hole airport, his training and experience told him she was spooked. Shes left New York City to visit the Wind River Ranch, where Roan is a wrangler, and just as he can pick up a horses mood, he can feel the tension coming off her body. And that vulnerability is triggering all his protective instincts. . . Shiloh Gallagher likes the gray-eyed cowboys dry humorand the Special Forces background that lends him a stoic, powerful presence. But shes been scarred by trauma and her mothers murder . . . and knows a strong man can be dangerous. She came to wide-open Wyoming to flee a threat thats left her unable to write her novels. Now, as she rides horses with Roan and helps him build an isolated cabin, shes slowly letting down her guard. But danger has followed her west, and they wont have a future together unless they defeat a killer from her past. . .