1850s. Ten years after her parents were killed, Evelyn Radcliffe is once more homeless: the orphanage where she worked has burned to the ground. Only she and a young orphan girl escaped. They flee to Mesquite Springs in the Texas Hill Country and find shelter in the home of Wyatt Clark, a horse rancher whose plans don't include a family of his owe. But trouble has followed her to Mesquite Springs. Can Wyatt keep Evelyn safe from the man who wants her dead? -- adapted from back cover.