Emerald-eyed Charl Beckwith was too proud for love until she met the mysterious Seth Porterfield, a duke's bastard son, sent by England to betray the new America she loved ...

As war raged around them, passion was their battlefield ... As fate wrenched them apart, desire was their destiny... And as she followed Seth into the forests of a new continent, and into her heart's own wilderness, Charl was to learn the towering, tempestuous truth of love ...