Outlaws should be brought to justice. Marshal Henry Owens has spent his life upholding the law. Known as a straight arrow to his friends and fellow law enforcement, Marshal Owens always gets his man. Um, er, unless it's a woman. The only thing standing between him and turning in his badge for a quiet life on his ranch is Murdering Mercy O'Bannon. As she keeps slipping out of his cuffs, Marshal Owens has to face the truth: she might be the one outlaw he'd rather kiss than lock up.
A woman has to make her own justice. Mercy O'Bannon learned to fight her own battles at a young age, and she's been on her own ever since. Her solitary life has been all right with her, but a few kisses with a dark stranger change her life forever, and staying two steps ahead of the law can be trouble when all a woman longs for is the man behind the badge. But she knows wanting a man like the marshal is dangerous, especially when killing a man isn't even her darkest secret.
Even if Mercy O'Bannon can make a marshal as stubborn as Henry Owens bend the law, can he possibly love the woman she really is?