Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Justa Williams doesn't look for trouble..it's usually just there when he wakes up in the morning. This time it started with the telegram saying squatters were camped on the Half-Moon ranch, near the Mexican border. Then Justa's brother, Norris, who'd gone to investigate, took the law into his own fists-and landed in a Monterrey jail for punching a Mexican police captain. Justa figured on buying his brother's freedom-because in Mexico, only money talks....

Bred for his leopard-shifting abilities, billionaire Jake Bannaconni lives in an emotional vacuum after a tragic twist of fate left him to raise his infant son alone. But when his path crosses that of the enigmatic young Emma Reynolds whom he hires as his son's nanny, Jake becomes inflamed by a passion that he has never fathomed.