Catherine finds herself stranded in a small western town in the late sixteen hundreds and is rescued by a cattle baron, who hires her to become his wife, for, how ever long he needs her. She ultimately finds that he is a domineering man, who demands obedience and during her struggle with his controlling ways she falls in love with him and finds herself emotionally and physically involved with him even though he prepares to marry another woman. Jonathan Thornton, the new cattle baron, because, of his father's illness is returning home and stumbles upon a young woman being sold to a brothel and he rescues her and ultimately hires her to marry him in order to keep peace, between he and his father for the two men had a disagreement causing Johnny to leave home five years ago. Now, he finds himself torn, between Catherine the woman he hired to act as his wife, who invades this thoughts during the day and his dreams at night and gives him peace and contentment when he makes love to her and Elizabeth, the woman with whom he is engaged to be married as they have been meeting and writing secretly over the past five years and is use to the life of a man who works twelve or more hours a day in running a ranch as the Bar T.

The wilderness at the heart of the Australian Northern Territory was no place for delicate city beauty Samantha Langdon. Cattleman Ross Sunderland wouldn't have agreed to act as guide if he'd known Samantha had signed up for the trip. Their one meeting had sparked an overwhelming attraction and, determined to resist her, loner Ross had vowed to avoid her at all costs. Sam could see in his hard, handsome face that Ross didn't want her along. But they were seduced by the danger and primitive beauty around them, and raw instinct took over as their passion could no longer be denied…

The wilderness at the heart of the Australian Northern Territory was no place for delicate city beauty Samantha Langdon.

If only the society beauties jostling for the bouquet, hoping to become Mrs. Garrick Rylance, knew that the dashing best man in question has eyes for only one woman…. Bridesmaid Zara was his friend, his lover—but that was five years ago, before she flew to the city and out of his life, and Garrick cordoned off his heart. So now, seeing Zara again, Garrick is wary. But there's one thing he's certain of—he won't let her run this time!