Mirage — Donna Valentino

Eleanor McKittrick's home was as bleak as the prison governed by her tyrannical father. Desperate, she fled to a Kansas homestead, only to be pursued by the handsome, enigmatic Tremayne Hawthorne, a prisoner sent to return her to her father's captivity.

Wrongfully convicted of murder, Tremayne had been forced into a devil's bargain with the jailhouse warden: capture Ellie and he would be set free. But Ellie's touch released the shackles of Tremayne's heart, and together they discovered love and freedom to be more than a far-off . . .MIRAGE!