The heat is on!
A year ago, Katie Dorchester's heart died with her husband. Worse, her ex-in-laws would kill to steal her property. Forced to leave town to find peace from them pressuring her, she escapes to build a new life in nearby Brooksville.
Enter Joe Lansing and his cousin, Deputy Mason Carlisle, who endured heartaches of their own. Joe's butted heads with the Dorchesters before...and suspects his fiancée paid the ultimate price for crossing them. Mason lost his sister to a rich bully. When they intercede on Katie's behalf to protect her from the Dorchesters, they know she is the one for them.
Katie would do anything to protect Joe and Mason's reputations in town, including giving up her own happiness. When the Dorchesters threaten her men, she tries to protect them the only way she knows how. Now her men are in a race to save her life and their new family. But can Joe and Mason keep Katie safe in the deadly Hernando Heat?
