Maggie Donnelly, manager of the Four Roses Saloon, is shocked when her father sells his half of the business to Cutter, the man she loved and swore to forget when he left her after one fiery night of passion.

Love Struck Mary Frances Donnelly's quiet reserve gives way to her white-hot Irish temper when her father provides her with a "partner" to run the Four Roses Hotel. Frannie hopes the handsome stranger will tire of the sedate ambience of a San Francisco hotel owner, but Sean Sullivan, full of blarney, full of life, and full of lust for his tantalizingly fiery partner, is not about to disappear. Seemingly overnight, Sean's powerful, charismatic presence turns Frannie's life and her hotel upside-down—and she is not about to trust this charmer with her business ... or her heart. And as Sean's "family" of traveling performers moves in, the stubborn partners sing their own duet of desire and denial ... daring each other to make the final leap into the arms of love.

PASSION IN DISGUISE With a ruthless competitor determined to drive her out of business, spirited Mary Alice "Al" Donnelly has her hands full running the Four Roses Mine. So she eagerly awaits the help her meddlesome father is sending to San Francisco. Anticipation turns to fury, however, when the hot-tempered miss meets her new "partner," Travis Deal—a dandified "fancy-man" used to the soft life and satin sheets. But there is more to Travis than meets the eye. From behind his flamboyant facade is a former U.S. marshal determined to get to the root of the "accidents" plaguing the Four Roses. And it's getting harder from him to keep his "dandy" act up—what with the irresistible temptation of tempestuous "Al" Donnelly so close at hand...and so ripe for touching, and kissing and loving.