Criminal investigator Deke Bannon finds his latest assignment, protecting gorgeous news anchor Kelly Johns, who is a walking target, endangering his investigation as passion explodes between them.

Now that Michelle Lantz has been dating Korey for over a year, she thought it was only a matter of time before he proposed. But Korey has seemed distant and is far from the attentive boyfriend she once knew. Tyler Bontrager and his brother Korey find themselves continually arguing: Tyler doesn't approve of how Korey treats Michelle and Korey thinks Tyler is out to take anything that's his.

"Dakota Territory, 1867. The ODriscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Toms lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a river down off the Bozeman trail. If there is game here, they may survive the winter. But their attempts to find food and endure the savage winter are threatened by the arrival in their camp of two trappers, whose presence sets in motion a series...