From the author of Bound for Sin comes a new historical Western romance that tests life and love on the Oregon Trail.
Emma Palmer''s been a lady of the night and a gambler, a thief and a blackmailer, a liar and a peddler of sin. But mostly a lady of the night. She''s spent most of her life as the hard-as-nails, smart-talking ''Seline'', working her way across the country to the goldfields of California, where she can finally ply her trade on her own terms. And she''s a darn good Madam, if she does say so herself. Her place is clean, her booze is cheap, and her bedrooms are fancy. But when a would-be patron won''t take no for an answer, she''s forced to fight for her life and run. And what better disguise than as a nun?
Tom Slater is a taciturn cattleman at the tail end of a long, hard season on the trail. He plans to have a quiet winter at his old family homestead in Mexico. What he doesn''t plan on is finding a foul-mouthed nun stranded in the middle of nowhere. She has sly green eyes and a way of looking at him that turns his head upside down. Tom doesn''t need to be trailsman to know that this woman will only lead to trouble.