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Jace Rankin is a bounty hunter with a reputation for getting his man. When a boy who is being bullied by a group of miners asks him to kill a man who forced him off his ranch, Jace agrees that he will bring the guy to justice but not kill him. But first he must make a detour to find a friend.

Kyla Springer has been riding the trails for the last month searching for Jace Rankin. Disguised as a boy, Kyla needs Jace to get revenge on the man who killer her husband and took her ranch. When a confrontation along the way gets her shot, and Jake discovers that the boy is really a woman, she has to come clean about why she wants the scoundrel dead.

I thought his book had a slow beginning, but it turned out to be solid western romance with lots of action and adventure. Jace is a person who has went through his life never knowing love. Kyla is an independent woman who was raped by the book's villain. They are thrown together and must make the best of the situation. I was thoroughly entertained by this book. My rating: 4 Stars.