Angel's Wing — Jill DuBois

Stripped of her fortune and her pride, she stacked the decks as a ruthless gambler in the wild mining towns of the West... -- Laurel Adams was a passionate Southern belle who always got her own way. Rather than see her beloved home Sea Wind fall into the Yankee hands of Bryant Flannery, who bought it after the war, she burned it to the ground. -- Then she ran. In glittering Kansas City, Laurel hid her past, changed her name, and took advantage of the free-flowing gold and high-stakes mood of the wild new West. As she gambled her way to riches, Laurel still could not forget Bryant Flannery, the disturbingly handsome Yankee she cheated.

He tracked her through Texas and caught her in Cheyenne, where Laurel suddenly saw more than anger in his eyes, and felt more than fear in her heart. She believed that no man could stir her passions -- until she was caught in a final showdown in the treacherous mining town of Angel's Wing, where Laurel dealt the hand that would decide who would live and who would die...