is a no-nonsense, hardened mine owner. He has little tolerance for most people and dodges them at every opportunity. He survives as a loner in the secluded Colorado high country - until the day he walks into the General Store and sees the fiery Jordan, and nothing in his world will ever be the same. is a Denver socialite who is running from a broken engagement and the conventions of high society. Visiting her aunt in the sleepy town of Nederland, Colorado, seems like the perfect escape to give her ex-fiancé time to get over his anger and disgrace. Little does she know that everything is about to change when she meets the imposing and elusive Edward.But jilted fiancés have a way of not staying gone, especially when they are the archrival of the man who sets your world ablaze. Edward will use every resource to protect Jordan from the evil heart of a man whose driving obsession is to pull them apart.