Lucy Haskell has a passion for danger and isn't afraid to let everyone know it. The Oregon Trail is the perfect way for her to travel home to her father's ranch in Wyoming, and to meet new friends and talk their ears off along the way. But Lucy's talking and risk-taking masks a darker fear-that no one could possibly love or even like a woman as unconventional as her. All that changes when Gideon Faraday stumbles into her life... Dr. Gideon Faraday is a scientist: intelligent, handsome, reserved, soft-spoken... and a murderer. He's heading west to atone for the lives he's taken, and the last thing he wants is to make friends on the trail or to fall in love. But from the moment he sees bubbly, daring, beautiful, fearless Lucy, he's smitten. Gideon and Lucy can't fight the passion that pulls them together-with scandalous consequences-but when a mysterious stranger joins their wagon train and Gideon's life is in jeopardy, it will take all the daring Lucy possesses to keep Gideon alive. Danger is just the beginning...