He came to collect a bounty. He found a redemption he couldn't afford.
Body: Cassian "Cash" has two rules: never take a job personally, and never work on credit. As the most notorious bounty hunter in the territory, he's saving every dollar for a quiet life where no one knows his name. So when railroad tycoon Prosper Beauregard offers a fortune to retrieve his runaway daughter, Cash takes the job without blinking. He expects a spoiled heiress partying in a luxury hotel.
He finds Eulalie "Lollie" Beauregard in the mud of Silver Creek, armed with a cast-iron skillet and standing between a dozen orphans and starvation.
Lollie didn't run away to be wild; she ran away to save the children her father's railroad is trying to displace. She has the will to fight, but she lacks the weapon that matters most: the legal deed to the land.
When Cash realizes his client plans to bulldoze the sanctuary Lollie has built, his iron-clad rules start to crack. He strikes a deal: he'll use his deadly skills to help her retrieve the deed from the territorial capital, but in exchange, she must surrender to him so he can collect his fee.
It's a simple transaction. Until a three-day journey through the wilderness forces them to rely on each other to survive. Now, with a team of ruthless mercenaries on their tail and a passion igniting that neither expected, Cash faces the hardest choice of his life.
He can have the fortune he's always wanted. Or he can have the woman who makes him want to stay.
