"Miss Kristin Anderson had never left home before, but no one was going to stop her from going to Montana to take possession of Larkspur, the ranch she had inherited. She was 23, a 'spinster'...She didn't know she'd have to outsmart gunslingers and a land grabber...And she never dreamed that Buck Lenning, the 'old' foreman at her ranch, was a young, lanky, secretive cowboy..."--Cover.

"... a young woman takes over a frontier hotel during Oklahoma's oil boom and carves a place for herself in a man's world"--Jacket.

"Iowa, 1958. Nelda Hanson, a successful young designer in Chicago, has come home to sell the family farm. Here, just eight years ago, she was a pregnant teenage bride, torn from the arms of her new husband minutes after the ceremony. Nelda wouldn't see him again, not even after she bore his child. Now suddenly-and dangerously-Lute Hanson is back in her life. The thin, blue-eyed boy with the shy smile has become a rugged and handsome, yet distant and...

Iris Ouverson has poured all her energies into the family farm, so the appearance of John Lang is both unexpected and infuriating. Now, the land is theirs to share-an idea she can't accept. But John is determined to prove his dedication to the farm and his feelings for Iris. The caring affection he showed her has ripened into a deep, adoring passion that thrives in the fertile cllimate of their need for each other. But when disaster strikes the farm...