Defiant

Defiant by Potter, Patricia. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780553566017.

Hailed as a "shining talent" who "soars above the rest," bestselling author Patricia Potter follows the success of Wanted and Relentless with a stunning love story that confirms her status as "as master storyteller." Only the desire for vengeance had spurred Wade Foster on, until the last of the men who had destroyed his family lay sprawled in the dirt. Now, badly wounded, the rugged outlaw closed his eyes against the pain... and awoke to a tender touch. Hed never asked Mary Jo Williams to save him, couldnt understand why a lawmans widow hadnt the sense to leave a stranger to his fate. But the daring beauty refused to abandon him. And soon, when a posse gets too close, Wade will have to choose between fleeing and risking everything for this dauntless woman who could show him how to live--and love--again.