Eva Eberhart was looking for way out of her dance hall life...and found herself at Trail's End. Gruff rancher Chase Cassidy didn't think Eva had what it took to be housekeeper to a bunch of ranch hands but he wanted to give her a chance. For Chase himself lived in the shadow of his own dangerous past. Maybe together they could find a place in the heart where they could build a sweet forgiving love. Because in Last Chance, Montana, the greatest chance of all comes along once in a lifetime.

It was Independence Day 1894 when the widow Rachel McKenna decided, "I will not wear black tomorrow." Her husband, the sheriff of Last Chance, Montana, had been dead for a year. Now, sitting alone on the edge of the dance floor listening to the music, she was ready to start living again. It was then that Lane Cassidy walked boldly toward her and asked, "May I have this dance?" Rachel knew the town gossips would be shocked. Lane was a legendary gunfighter and to dance with him was unthinkable, scandalous, and exactly what Rachel decided to do.