The Claim
Deadlock

After a lifetime of keeping creditors at bay, Colonist Sarah Meade was determined to hang on to the valuable land her father had won. But her dreams of respectability were promptly dashed by Zeke Brownell, the irrepressible ruffian who kidnapped her to drive home the dubious point that her land was his land.

The woman was infuriating! The idea of a lone spinster taking on the most feared man in all of Albany was absurd. Though Zeke had to admit the lovely Mistress Meade was proving a worthy adversary for his infamous band of Green Mountain Boys ... and a distracting temptation for Zeke himself.