Tired of playing the romantic field, rapacious playboy Worth Lansing turns to his long-time best friend, the widowed Cyn McCall, for love and companionship, and their passion blazes hotly on the sands of romantic Acapulco over the course of a getaway weekend.

Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble...and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners...