When one of a tight-knit team of Army raiders turns traitor, each Night Rider vows to hunt down the man who betrayed them all. Handsome Owen Wheeler is dead on the traitor's trail when he stops at a saloon run by plain, iron-spined Hetta Gynne. He has no intention of being charmed—and thankfully, Hetta has no intention of being charming.

Hetta learned a long time ago that handsome men break hearts and move on. But as Owen starts to see that Hetta is like no other women he's ever met, it becomes clear that fate has a plan for him far sweeter than revenge…