At the age of eleven, Jenny Morriston executed the death-defying feat of breaking her father out of jail after he was wrongly accused of murder. Now, at the age of twenty-one, she has her mind set on an even more dangerous plan Just helping her father slip the hangman s noose isn t enough: Jenny still has to clear his good name. So with newly short hair covered by a sweat-stained Stetson and a silver-inlaid gun belt wrapped around her waist, Jenny rides back to Rio Hondo, Texas disguised as young gunslinger Jim Morris. Every breath, every movement, every word threatens to unmask her and put a noose around her neck. Jenny s only chance of discovering the true murderer and staying alive long enough to see justice done is to maintain her disguise. Her sole ally is her childhood friend Lucas. No matter how much it pains her, she must guard her identity even from him. The closer Jenny gets to the truth, the riskier her charade becomes until the only thing she can rely on is her courage."