Luke Turner has always been an outcast—known as "bad blood" from his boyhood in a tarpaper shack, to his nights in a prison cell. Sarah McGowan’s roots are deep in the Texas soil. But her secret, shameful love for her sister''s husband has kept her from happiness. Pride and their love of Texas throw Luke and Sarah together in an unlikely marriage. Then, as unexpectedly as a spring flood, long pent-up passion explodes in a storm that consumes them both.

Luke Turner has always been an outcast—known as "bad blood" from his boyhood in a tarpaper shack, to his nights in a prison cell. Sarah McGowan’s roots are deep in the Texas soil. But her secret, shameful love for her sister''s husband has kept her from happiness. Pride and their love of Texas throw Luke and Sarah together in an unlikely marriage. Then, as unexpectedly as a spring flood, long pent-up passion explodes in a storm that consumes them both.