Kade

On the run and badly wounded the half-breed known only as Kade closes his eyes and waits for death.Riding the outskirts of her South Dakota ranch Norrie McDonald finds a man lying in the dirt unmoving his shirt covered with blood. Thinking him dead she decides to return home and send someone back to bury the body but discovers hes still alive so she takes him back to the ranch to care for.As Kade recovers he learns that the McDonald ranch is heavily mortgaged. A neighboring rancher covets the McDonald place and Norries father suspects him of stealing their cattle and scaring off their hired hands in an effort force McDonald to sell. Against his better judgment Kade who has a reputation as a fast gun agrees to stay on after he recovers partly because hes got nowhere else to go partly because he owes the McDonalds his life but mainly because hes attracted to Norrie.Although Norrie is also smitten with Kade she is reluctant to admit it. Hes a drifter a fast gun with a price on his head. But love is stronger than fear and Norrie decides to follow her heart no matter the consequences.