No. No more fairy tales. Widow Maggie Robbins would be a fool no more. She'd married a thief believing him to be her gilded deliverer during her mother's unexpected illness and death. Now, tucked in her cabin, Maggie and her eight-year-old son, are surrounded by the gang who killed her thieving husband. Now they demand her dead husband's last heist-gold-and lots of it. Among the evil men is Maggie's childhood love, Hank Sutter, who'd abandoned her years ago. Time and circumstance has curdled the love she once held for him and she dare not trust him.

Hank's only thought is of Maggie who he never stopped loving. On a mission to become a Ranger to be worthy of her, he's infiltrated a gang of bank robbers. He's torn between extracting information from Maggie and his desire to keep her safe. But when he discovers his bogus contact is merely measuring out revenge on Maggie and her son, Hank must recover the boy and protect Maggie at all costs. Can he and Maggie find the child before he's gone for good? Or will Maggie forever blame him for abandoning her again when she needs him most?