For five years, someone has been trying to kill Ashton Cordell, Earl of Ravensby. Now reclusive and wary, he is assaulted by two highwaymen and returns fire, killing his attacker. The other highwayman proves to be a sharp-tongued young woman, daughter of the man he shot. She denies any link to his long-time enemy.

Glenys Shea agrees to help the earl track down his adversary, so long as he provides a home for her and her brother, Harry. Together they seek information and lay traps, but the villain is always several steps ahead of them. Their growing love seems impossible when danger and death await them at every turn.