Devil'S Dare

the long version

A GOOD MAN WAS HARD TO FIND… Especially for 18 year old Mercy Fairweather, whose preacher father kept her well hidden. Mercy was innocence, smarts and beauty—tempting to the Devil himself. But even an angel deserved some fun. So when cowboy Sam Devlin, 25, asked her to dinner, she found a way to say yes. Sam Devlin knew a pretty lady when he saw one, and Mercedes LaFleche was one such woman. He'd heard she was "particular" with her favors, but he'd never wined and dined a more blushing, naive little gal, and he was beginning to wonder if this was, indeed, the infamous soiled dove….