Elizabeth Lowell

Confronted by her late husband's suspicious death, the prospect of bankruptcy, and the disappearance of a priceless black pearl necklace called the "Black Trinity," young widow Hannah McGarry reluctantly turns for help to the seductive Archer Donovan, the silent partner in her husband's pearl farm enterprise

While Hope Gardener's Nevada desert ranch begins to dry up under the harsh sun, her thirst for romance is unexpectedly slaked in a man for whom she had never planned to fall.