Summary

By-the-book Deputy Sheriff Jake Madigan has always walked the straight and narrow—until a search and rescue operation pits him against a female convict on the run in the vast Rocky Mountain wilderness.

As head of the equine unit of Rocky Mountain Search and Rescue, Jake trails the fugitive on horseback to a remote forested area. He is shocked to discover his subject is not the hardened criminal he expected, but a doe-eyed beauty with skin like porcelain and a body that could almost make him forget his by-the-book ways.

Abby Nichols is no stranger to trouble, but she never imagined someone would frame her for the death of a patient— or that she would be faced with life in prison. Determined to clear her name, she makes a daring break for freedom— only to find herself in a beautiful and hostile land—and drawn to a man as hardened as the Colorado mountains.

Can this straight arrow lawman put his ethics aside to help a woman who can't seem to trust him?