Both had paid their dues.Both had earned Gold Mountain.The last thing they wanted was each other.Deli Gold doesn't care if everyone in town thinks she's a bad tempered hermit who killed her mother. But when gossip turns into threats, Deli finds herself fighting to save her life and the farm she inherited.After three years of hunting down criminals, Reed Becker is looking forward to rest and serenity. He has the papers that prove his deceased partner left him the infamous Gold Farm, but the savage woman living there says otherwise.Any sane man would sacrifice the measly twenty acres and leave a woman like Deli Gold to the wolves. But somehow she's managing to conquer Reed's heart, and he's sure she doesn't even know it.