Injured and lost, Maggie Dennehy stumbles through the darkness, only to awaken hours later in a very compromising - and not at all unpleasant - position with a man she's never met before. How did she get here, and why does she feel so odd? Maggie knows only that she must leave immediately. But even after she's safe at home, she can't forget the hot-blooded stranger who invades her dreams. And when she encounters him again, she realizes exactly why.

Colorado rancher Connor Holiday is surprised to learn that the willing young woman with whom he spent his first night in New York City was anything but experienced. And he's even more shocked to discover that the green-eyed beauty he deflowered is actually his arranged bride-to-be! After what happened between them, Maggie has as little desire to marry him and be carted off to the wilds of Colorado as he has to take her. But take her he must, and trust her he must. As for loving her...he already does...