Devil and angel, bandit and postulant; Rodrigo Delgado O'Hara and Angelica Howe fell in love against all odds. When Angelica left the safety of the convent to teach at the Mission in Santa Barbara, she would never have believed she'd become a hostage in a Mexican bandit's camp. Now her only hope was that her brother would pay the ransom of gold and guns so that she could return to the sheltered life she had known. There was more danger of losing her...