Prairie Cry — Dawn Flindt

In a windswept, forsaken corner of the world, Hayden Conover forged an uneasy alliance with Tomara Metcalf. He didn't know her, didn't trust her, but he had to work with her long enough to bring her murderous relatives to justice. Then he'd put the fanciful, confusing yearnings she stirred out of his mind for good.

Though Tomara had left her hard-knocks clan behind long ago, she was still a Metcalf, and Metcalfs didn't murder. Family loyalty gave her courage as she and Hayden combed the desolate plains, but her woman's heart cried out for comfort, and she longed to convince the unforgiving lawman that desire, wild and sudden as a prairie fire, could be as precious and quenching as a desert spring.