After one strictly business visit to the uncivilized wilds of Wyoming, globetrotting financial wizard Joshua Ames swore he'd never go west again. Yet, here he was, back on a sprawling ranch deep in snowy cattle country, confronted with the one woman he hadn't been able to forget—a mischievous, irresistible cowgirl who both maddened and aroused him. But when it came to love and commitment, she was as mule-headed as they come!

For Traci, it was lust—plain and simple. Still, the fiercely independent cowgirl and single mother of a precocious adolescent daughter knew from past experience just how dangerous unbridled passion could be. But that was before this outrageously attractive city slicker tenderly lassoed her wild, wary heart....