The older cowboy's command cuts through the morning air as he watches Queenie from across the corral, the same man whose help could save her ranch or ruin her completely. Gerard keeps finding reasons to hold her at the gate, his scarred arm a map of everything he's endured, and now he wants to map her untouched skin with hands that know exactly how to break a virgin in.

She feels the pull in her curves, the fear of being left behind after one night battling the desperate need to please the man who holds her future in his grip. The foreclosure papers wait on the table, but his voice promising to teach her what her body craves makes the choice burn hotter than the dust.

Can she let him claim her first time without losing the only home she's ever known?