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On the searing sands of New Mexico’s frontier, a man who once faced death with a flame‑haired temptress must confront his reluctant past. As he escorts the beautiful Elizabeth Curtin and her party on a perilous trek across the remote desert in search of her missing husband, his memories of a final moment under the cruel sun pull him into a love he swore he would never feel again.
Their histories are tangled by fate: after the first encounter, she fled east to New York while he pursued the frontier west. Now, she stands before him as both an alluring memory and a threatening prize—she will risk her life to claim the legendary treasure and, perhaps, the man’s heart.
A tale of passion, greed, and the haunting pull of a doomed romance that threatens to destroy everything the protagonists hold dear.
First publish date: August 3, 1991
Genre: Western Fiction/Western Romance
Authors: Nan Ryan
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