ISN"T IT ROMANTIC? As thunder booms and lightning flashes and wolves nuzzle the bloody, bullet-ridden corpses of Longarm’s fallen foes out in the wet, muddy streets of a Mexican ghost town, the lawman is warm and cozy inside—and happy to be alive, receiving a sweet reward for rescuing a kidnapped señorita. Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has technically gone rogue—crossing the border into Mexico to recover a stolen Army payroll. He hadn’t planned on encountering hot-blooded hostage Claudia Cordova, but now he’s sure glad he saved her… Until he wakes up after a night of passion tied to the four posts of a bed—his seductive siren long gone, her saddlebags bulging with those “gringo greenbacks”…