HE TOOK MY GUNS AND GAVE ME HIS NAME. I am a hunter, a woman of lead and lawless trails. I came to Calico to collect a bounty, not to become one. When a stray bullet sent me to the town doctor, I expected a bandage and a bill. Instead, I found Dustin Lambert. He is a mountain of a man with a primal hunger for a legacy. He was waiting for a fragile mail-order bride, but he saw the fire in my blood and decided I was the only woman strong enough to carry his name. He stripped my weapons and my clothes, replacing my freedom with his heavy, authoritative touch. Outside, the Hatfield gang is burning the town to the ground, searching for a map they think I hold. Inside the clinic, I am a prisoner to a different kind of storm. Dustin does not ask for my heart. He demands my submission and an heir to rule this dying frontier. The walls shake with gunfire, but I am pinned beneath the weight of his obsession. He treats me with a clinical intensity that melts into raw, carnal possession. My grit is no match for his need. I came here to hunt a man, but I have been tamed by a master who intends to fill me with his future. I am no longer the woman who rode into this town, and I will belong to him until the desert claims my bones.