Jessica Colton thought her heart would break to see her half-brother Pace in chains on a Florida-bound prison train with the defeated Geronimo. Vowing to free him, she boards the next train east. But she is not alone. Captain Blake Renard is determined to keep Jessica away from the Army's half-breed prisoner--at any cost. But despite his hatred of the savage tribe who destroyed his family, he is drawn to the sensual firbreand by a desire he can neither understand nor resist.