Unjusly branded a witch and cruelly taken captive, Irish-born Johanna McFarley barely escaped her brutal tormentors before she discovered a fierce black-eyed stranger lying half-dead in her path. After risking her safety to nurse the proud Comanche back to health, she couldn't have been more shocked when he suddenly hauled her into his embrace - and when she surrendered all too easily to his searing touch. He'd leave her at first light, she knew, but for this one night only, she'd be his willing slave.