I'm not the kind of man an innocent girl should fall for.

But Marley Grove says she knows what she wants. And she wants me.

She says she can handle a mountain man, after all, this freckled face slice of sunshine grew up in Alaska.

But I'm more than a feral mountain man.

I'm an ex-drug lord, reformed con-man, an exonerated criminal.

Her brothers are the River Boys and they want me off Whiskey Mountain.

I want to turn a new leaf, but not if it means giving up what I want.

I love Marley more than life itself. But is that enough when the world is dead set against it?

It's high time we find out. Because I'm not going down without a fight. I'll be here, on Whiskey Mountain, defending what — and who— is mine. With guns blazing.