Lovely Letty Banks was tied to her home by a cruel father, who threatened to harm Letty's little half-sister, unless Letty stayed on the estate. Letty would give up anything, even the love of handsome Yankee Thorn Bradley, to keep her sister safe. Then her father died, and this beautiful woman was in danger--from a nation on the brink of civil war, and from men determined to take her rightful inheritance. Letty wouldn't go down without a battle, but she seemed no match for the deadly tension sweeping the land. Unless a love stronger than any hate returned to save her, and show her passion's true meaning...