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To repay a debt, bounty hunter Isaac Blackwood agrees to escort a saloon singer's spirited daughter to her father's home in St Louis. Which is far too close to his own home in Coopers Creek-a place where he was betrayed and has no desire to ever return. But he doesn't plan on having to contend with a madman on the trail; an old rival who will stop at nothing for revenge.After a lifetime of traveling, Darby Bloom wants to put down roots. She believes the father she's never met will...
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To repay a debt, bounty hunter Isaac Blackwood agrees to escort a saloon singer's spirited daughter to her father's home in St Louis. Which is far too close to his own home in Coopers Creek-a place where he was betrayed and has no desire to ever return. But he doesn't plan on having to contend with a madman on the trail; an old rival who will stop at nothing for revenge.After a lifetime of traveling, Darby Bloom wants to put down roots. She believes the father she's never met will welcome her with open arms, but when she reaches her destination she is already in love with Isaac, the brooding bounty hunter who wants nothing to do with her. She makes a decision that leaves her beholden to him.Now Isaac's debt is still unpaid, and he is responsible for a woman who jeopardizes his control, steals his concentration, and threatens to break down the protective wall around his heart-a wall he put there to keep him from caring for someone. If he doesn't care, he can't be betrayed again. While Isaac can't abandon Darby in St Louis, he knows he must let her go. He can never be the man she needs or deserves, even though he wants her more than his next breath. His only alternative is to take her home to Coopers Creek, where he hopes his lawman brother will know what to do. It is there that he comes face to face with a lifetime of betrayal and must fight to save the woman who holds his heart.