How do you let yourself love without revealing your deepest secrets?

Once upon a time, Rebecca Colfax was a well-to-do young woman with a bright future in St. Louis. Then her husband gambled all her money away and disappeared into the night. Alone, homeless, and desperate, she was forced to take her some to an orphanage, but now she's determined to get him back. Little did she know that during her search she'd encounter a man destined to change the course of her life ...

Rebecca Colfax was out of options. Which is how she wound up working at the Scarlet Garter in Oaktree, Kansas, as a singer and hurdy-gurdy girl, trying to scrape together enough money to get her son back. At the saloon, she reveals nothing of herself, not even her real name. She doesn't want anyone to know her secrets – especially not Slater Forrester, a faro dealer and ex-spy who's clearly haunted by something in his past. But when violence bursts through the saloon's doors, she discovers a dangerously appealing side to Slater, a side she finds hard to resist. But how will the man she's falling in love for react when he uncovers the secrets she's keeping?