Determined to find her missing husband, Julia Bonneaux and her young daughter make a dangerous journey to Wyoming. But at Fort Laramie Julie finds instead Major Andrew Garrett, the man she had secretly married seven years ago, a Union spy who had betrayed her and who she believed was dead. Now she needs his help, and Andrew is torn between duty and desire, between the misunderstandings of the past and the promise of a new beginning.

Time has eased the pain of Andrew's months in a Confederate prison-but not the memory of Julia: the temptress who had enticed him, the woman who had nearly destroyed him...and the wife who now wears another man's ring. When she walks back into his life, asking for his help, Andrew is torn between duty and desire.

Now, with his career-and his heart-in jeopardy, he must choose between the misunderstandings of the past and the promise of a new beginning.