Book excerpt: Luke Savage Was Not A Marryin' Man. The funny thing was—Noelle Bellencourt just happened to come from a long line of folks with tricks up their sleeves. Certainly there was more to this Eastern miss than met the eye, for he suspected she had the power to transform his wandering ways! Noelle Bellencourt had come West to find family and fulfillment—and instead found herself stranded in the desert, arguing at riflepoint with Luke Savage. But could this mysterious stranger truly be the one to make all her troubles disappear?