Duel McClain has just about given up on life until a single game of poker changes everything. He leaves the saloon with a baby in his arms-a baby he won-vowing he’ll do whatever it takes to keep the little girl safe. But just as Duel thinks his life can’t get any more complicated, a beautiful woman stumbles into the light of his campfire.

Jessie Foltry is hungry, tired, afraid, and running for her life. She assumes trusting Duel and his baby will be the easy part-there’s no healing her wounded heart. But Duel makes it clear that the Texas plains have more than one kind of knight, and that perhaps her salvation is closer than she ever thought…