When you gamble with desire, be prepared to risk
everything…
Unlike the rest of the Hell's Eight brotherhood, Ace
Parker's home isn't on the range. This restless cowboy
craves the hustle of Simple, Texas, a lawless town where
he
can sate his darker appetites without guilt. At least he
could, until Petunia Wayfield arrived. The prickly new
teacher is insisting that Ace help her rid the town of
drunkenness and card playing. For that kind of miracle,
Ace
demands a reward the spinster schoolmarm will surely never
give.
But Petunia isn't backing down. Not when the intense
passion
Ace offers shatters her to the core. As soon as she can
afford a ticket home back East, she'll leave Simple behind
for good. Until then, she'll match his sensual challenge
with her own, daring him to give up his fiercely guarded
self-control. And then real danger claims Petunia, forcing
Ace to reveal the man he really is—even if it drives her
away forever….