Some people in Twisted Creek, Wyoming, called Cassidy Wayne the prettiest woman in the west. All of them called her the fastest gun. but Cass ignored their whispers while she hunted down the men who murdered her family. For five years her desire for vengeance had filled her empty life. Now, with only the mastermind who planned the killings left to find, she wasn't about to let the new Federal Marshal stop her-even if he was the stubbornest, strongest, handsomest man she ever saw.

Federal Marshal Brett Ryder figured whoever started to rumors about a lady gunfighter had to be drunk or crazy; nevertheless he had to find the "Lady of the Gun" and arrest her. Brett wasn't prepared to the flash of desire that flared between him and Cass Wayne-or for his determination to end her vendetta by riding at her side and protecting her with loving powerful enough to heal a woman's hurting heart.