From the moment she felt herself lifted onto Rodrigo Aviles's saddle, Rebecca Harper knew she had definitely wandered off the tourist trail in Baja. Trekking across the desert on horseback with the don of a small mountain village certainly wasn't an experience from the pages of a guidebook. But Rebecca hadn't come to sightsee.. . .

She'd come to find her real family--instead, to defuse local gossip, she'd formed a makeshift one with Don Rigo and his sons. Soon Rebecca found herself wondering if a modern woman could live forever in an old-world village. And if vows made for convenience's sake ever rang true.