From the pleasures of her sheltered world in the bayous to the treacherous vastness of the great Southwest and beyond forever quenching her thirst for all the passion and adventure life had to offer wildly beautiful Rachel Delys fled the memories of her battle-slain lover and the fury of the Civil War. Across a tempestuous landscape, three men tried to tame her one who seduced her, one who ravaged her, and one who would bring her at last to the peak of sublime rapture and depths of soul-searing love!