Military life may have subdued the wild child in Staff Sergeant Chance McKinley, but when he's home on R&R, all bets are very much on at Kansas City's casinos.

He's barely back from Afghanistan before he volunteers to return-right about the time he's reminded he won something more than money on the roulette wheel the last time he was Stateside. A wife.

Bartender Tara Lambert could have gotten an annulment right after she and Chance wove their tipsy way down the aisle, but she's never been one to let a man off the hook. Even if he disappeared right after their nuptials.

When Tara finally tracks Chance down, he's as irresistible as ever-and on the verge of leaving for another deployment. Their individual fires collide to burn bright and hot, but when it comes to changing the blazing paths of their lives, which will sound loudest in Chance's ears? The call to battle, or the voice of the woman he loves?