She was too pretty to hang, but the law said she must. Kitty Devlin had been railroaded for the rope by a cutthroat sheriff and a woman-hating judge. They needed her out of the way. . . and she was going to get it right in her lovely neck. But the two schemers weren't counting on Duke Parry. The soft-spoken, hard-playing gambler hated a dirty game; Holiday's crooked lawmen were playing with a loaded hand and the Duke was determined to even the odds.