Montana may have been the “last best place” for American settlers—not so for the gray wolf. In Fair Game, Maude Graham suffers a brutal loss and retreats to the wilderness. Good and evil conspire, drawing Maude to the mysterious Rob Elliott, who has taken up the cause of wolves condemned to traps and poison. But even Maude’s gift of second sight cannot help her predict the collision of vengeance, love, and chance that lies ahead.

When the impetuous Persis Allen marries Union Pacific railroad baron Alex MacKinney, she gets the life of luxury and frontier adventure she hoped for...at a price. Caught up at once in the lusty drama of Butte City and Helena, she meets wealthy cattlemen and miners and glimpses the strange poverty of prostitutes and opium smokers.

The parties, balls, and harmless flirtations at first seem the ideal backdrop for the handsome and aspiring couple. But a crack appears in this perfect vignette, and no matter how hard a terrified Persis tries to patch the fissure, it widens into a yawning abyss of danger. Alone and stunned into a brutal recognition of the truth, Persis must confront her own choice between life and death.