This McCall cowboy is back to prove his innocence to the girl he's sure was complicit in putting him behind bars, but he didn't prepare to meet the woman she's become.

The wildest of the McCall boys is back…and he has a score to settle with Cassidy Miller! Like two outlaws facing off at high noon, they reunite at the Longhorn Cafe for the whole town to witness the long-awaited showdown. Rourke McCall has been fantasizing about this moment for more than a decade—except he hasn't counted on Cassidy growing up and becoming a woman. The memory of their one high school kiss suddenly hits him like a shotgun recoiling. But he can't let his emerging desire for Cassidy deter his search for a killer, who by all accounts is still at large in Antelope Flats and equally determined to destroy Rourke…and anyone close to him.

Originally published in 2004