Degan Grant is heading to California when he is called to apprehend three outlaws and turn them over to the law. But one of the outlaws, Maxine, is sassy, spirited - and insists she is innocent. Degan finds his desire for his beguiling prisoner sparking into a wildfire of passion between them. But they will have to risk confronting their pasts if they are to have any chance of a future in each other's arms...
