Ben cowden is no swaggering lover. he is a horseman, a stubborn son of arizona. but now ben is getting his lessons in the amorous arts-from the most beautiful woman he's ever laid eyes on. margarita elias odoms is the unhappy new wife of the ex-texas ranger hired by ranch boss duncan vincent to drive the cowdens out of arizona. when ben crosses into sonora to save margarita from despair, love turns to war. with a missing shipment of hijacked gold...

A.B. cowden is long, lean, and every bit as tough as the unforgiving frontier where he makes his home. since before the civil war his beef cows have grazed the arizonal range. it was a time when ranchers were neighbors united in the ongoing war against the apaches and the bandits from south of the border. but in 1885 barbed wire and greed rode into arizona along with an eastern cattle baron and ruthless hired guns, like the trigger-happy briggs brothers....