Sandra Brown

In the second book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown’s beloved Texas! trilogy, readers meet another son of the troubled Tyler clan—Chase Tyler, a man hardened by life and desperately trying to outrun the sorrows of his past.
 
Chase Tyler has been the object of Marcie Johns’s desire since grade school. But when it came time to settle down, the handsome, laconic cowboy chose another woman...

Honor Gillette discovers Lee Coburn, the man responsible for killing seven men the night before, lying in her front yard and is forced to comply with the armed stranger, who tells Honor that she and her daughter, Emily, are in danger due to something of great value that her late husband, a police officer, has hidden.