**Three women are alone in the Montana Territory. Each need a man to protect and cherish her. Because of a pact, three men will see this done. ** Liam Anderson will show Charlotte Randolph that being protected by a man also means being possessed body and soul. Rachel Moore resists the one man that awakens her body. Once Liam Barnes discovers Rachel's reason for evasion, he binds her to him in the most elemental of ways. Ben Worth coaxes skittish Leah Caruthers into his arms with devotion and a lesson in long-denied pleasure.