Once burned...

Thirteen years ago penniless young lovers Brandon Bear Hunter and Morning Skye had pledged themselves to each other, body and soul. Yet Brandon had left to seek his fortune . . . and Skye had wed another.

Now a savage twist of fate bound them together again, to battle a blaze that threatened widowed Skye's inheritance-all that Brandon despised. In twenty-four hours of relentless torment and sudden, naked passion, the blistering heat licked at their senses, seared away bitterness, and forged new dreams. But Skye and Brandon had been