An alternate cover edition exists here. Would you do it? Your name is Elise Sevensen. It's 1890 in the small Montana town of Morgan's Crossing. To keep Morgan's Crossing from being burned to the ground by a cruel Army Commander, you have agreed to marry a brutish man named Emil Kentov and consummate the marriage immediately. He isn't what you want. Your ideal man smiles and talks at your parties. Emil glowers and grumbles and doesn't go to parties. He is brave and has saved your life several times, but he grunts, says very little and when he talks, he uses the fewest words possible. As you spend more time with him, he appeals to your sensual side more and more, but he's nowhere close to the man of your dreams.