Publisher's Synopsis
Ivy Barton leaves a shattered life of a Southern lady behind to travel west with her husband to Colorado in 1891. Along the way her husband loses everything in a card game. To save them from ruin, Ivy must transform herself into Montana McCrory--a slaoon keeper, card shark, risk taker. A ruthless gambler, Langdon Runnels, becomes her tutor, but Runnels knows her true identity and is determined to beat her at her own game. Ivy has to prove herself in more ways that one.