Casey Straton's parents were horrified - for two years now, the stubborn beauty had been rejecting one suitor after another, not even wanting to hear about marriage. The girl's heart awakened only when she met Damien Rutledge, who came from prim New York to wild and reckless Texas to solve the mystery of a mysterious murder, not even suspecting that in the windswept prairies of the West he would find the greatest treasure in the world - passionate love...