Duke Gould owns one of the biggest ranches in Wyoming and has held it against rustlers, lawyers, and nature. His single-minded focus on the ranch is total--until the arrival of Natalie Reeves. Natalie is fresh from high society in New York City and she's escaped to Wyoming, away from the machinations of her uncle and his son. Best way to do that is to get married as fast as she can.

Growing up in the jewel-studded caves of the Iron Mountain trolls didn't seem strange to Nanamarvion Seracor. After all, one of those large, aloof beings had helped raise her.And Nanamarvion took for granted having a part-elf Father and a human Grandfather and Great-Grandmother, who were all master savants.And she accepted as normal that her family should load her down with five powerful talismen back when she was still a child……and having one of her best friends be a ...

Nanamarvion has a problem. It's men. The problem is that she wants one. Just for the short term. Her Great Grandmother's affairs were legend. Nana figures that she can follow in her footsteps. Simple, right? After all, Everyone has sex!But it's hard to develop even a short-term liaison when one spends one's time traveling the continent, searching out and destroying Priests of Nelrad.Anyway, few of the men she meets are even slightly attractive to her and those few are general...